FOR years, Billie J Bedser suffered seizures and memory loss – all caused by a splinter lodged in her foot that doctors ...

A woman battled seizures, extreme fatigue and memory loss for five years because of a wooden splinter embedded in her foot.

A 32-year-old Australian woman had severe seizures and memory loss along with other neurological symptoms when a splinter was lodged in her foot, which was misdiagnosed by the doctors. She later ...

She said: "It went in through the bottom of my foot. I was in pain ... who misdiagnosed the swelling as a ganglion cyst, something she repeatedly insisted it wasn’t. Billie says that despite ...

For parasitologists, the answer is simple. Neatly housed in each of the myriad segments of a giant T. solium tapeworm are ...

In the past three months, the Trump administration has cut the National Institutes of Health’s 60,000 research grants by ...

Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that appear in ... And right now, I can’t do a squat on my foot. I can’t do a one legged squat, I fall. It’s like I had a stroke or something.” ...

If you’ve ever wanted to be a doctor or know someone who works in healthcare, you probably know how bizarre and even scary ...

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But only after larval cysts (which represent the juvenile stage of adult tapeworms) age do they typically leak, inflame tissue, and trigger symptoms. Other noteworthy facts? Not only is NCC the ...