Robot-guided surgery successfully drains multiple deep brain abscesses
Brain abscesses located deep within the brain can rapidly become life-threatening and are often difficult to treat through…
Doctor Doesn’t Use Fitness Trackers, Is Obsessed With 1 Health Metric
Fitness trackers aren’t worth your money, a top doctor with 30 years of clinical experience said. Loading audio…
Family push for Sunshine Coast neurosurgery unit after shock brain cancer diagnosis
With two young children and a small business to run, Brad Collins figured his fatigue at the end…
Woman accused of paying secret kickbacks to surgeons to use medical devices at Brisbane hospital faces court
A woman accused of being part of a group who defrauded south-east Queensland public hospitals of millions of…
Incretin-based diabetes drugs show potential protective effects against dementia
A large McGill University study has found that two classes of medications commonly prescribed for Type 2 diabetes,…
Intranasal nanomedicine shows promise against glioblastoma
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, along with collaborators at Northwestern University, have developed…
Stereotactic radiosurgery for craniopharyngioma management
Craniopharyngiomas account for 2–5% of all primary brain tumors and 5–10% of pediatric brain tumors. Despite their benign…
Survival patterns differ across types of early-onset dementia
The survival rates of people with early onset dementia-diagnosed before the age of 65-vary considerably by clinical type,…
Disrupted brainstem-parahippocampal connectivity identified as a biomarker for delirium
Background and objectives Delirium, commonly observed in critically ill patients following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), is an acute neuropsychiatric…
Researchers uncover possible immune link to chronic pain
University of Arizona researchers may have uncovered a connection between chronic pain and a somewhat uncommon immune condition,…
Deadly brain cancer erodes skull bone and alters immune marrow
Scientists at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have shown for the…
AI tool SeeMe detects hidden signs of consciousness in brain injury patients
A new study published in Nature Communications Medicine led by neurosurgery researchers Sima Mofakham, PhD, and Chuck Mikell,…