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Toddler diagnosed with inoperable brain tumour before going blind ‘overnight’ - Olivia Taylor was diagnosed with an optic ...
Clinicians typically classify meningiomas—the most common type of brain tumor—into three grades, ranging from slow-growing to aggressive. But a new multi-institutional study suggests that appearances ...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is ending its support for a 26-year-old push to advance clinical trials for children with brain tumors. Founded in 1999, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) ...
Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) increased malignant brain tumor risk in a large retrospective study of civilians. This risk persisted when findings were meta-analyzed with data from ...
A deep-learning model trained on optical coherence tomography scans of the optic nerve head reliably distinguished among various types of optic nerve damage, such as glaucoma, non-arteritic anterior ...
A series of low heart rate alerts on her Apple Watch prompted a woman to get treatment — and discover she had an undiagnosed brain tumor that now needs constant monitoring. Apple Watch has an ECG app, ...
The Apple Watch’s health features have once again played a part in flagging a potential health problem. A 57-year-old woman from Brighton, East Sussex says her Apple Watch alerted her to an issue that ...
Blocking brain damage triggered by a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, may slow the growth of the cancer and allow the brain to keep working better for longer, according to a new study led by ...
Vishva Natarajan MED ’28, a second-year student at the Geisel School of Medicine, was recently named one of 11 recipients of the 2025 Jack & Fay Netchin Medical Student Fellowship from the American ...
New research links two widely used diabetes drugs, semaglutide or tirzepatide, to a rare but potentially vision-threatening eye condition, raising questions about drug-specific risks and the need for ...