Maria Menounos describes devastating brain tumor diagnosis as mother was also battling cancer

Maria Menounos is urging the public not to dismiss symptoms as merely ‘work stress’ as she did prior to her brain tumor diagnosis. The 40-year-old Sirius XM host revealed in July 2017 that she had a mass the size of a golf ball and that she’d undergone surgery to remove it.  In a recent appearance … Read more

Listening to music helps recovery of stroke patients by ‘stimulating their brain’

Listening to music helps stroke patients recover by stimulating their brain and lifting their mood, a study suggests. In the first study of its kind, researchers evaluated how music therapy improved the lives of stroke patients in Cambridge. Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the UK, causing motor skill problems and leaving sufferers … Read more

Heart-wrenching moment a patient, 22, with a catastrophic brain injury dies on BBC’s Hospital

Devastating scenes in BBC documentary Hospital show anxious parents insist there ‘will be a time’ their son recovers – hours before he passes away.  Jack, 22, was born healthy but suffered a catastrophic brain injury at the age of eight, after he was hit by a car outside his house as he crossed the road. The youngster … Read more

Body sensors detect if soldiers have been exposed to a blast and are at risk of a brain damage

Body armor sensors detect if US soldiers have been exposed to a harmful blast and are at risk of brain damage A trio of sensors will detect if a soldier is involved in a harmful blast Many times, soldiers are injuries and do not show symptoms from the event The gauges measure the blast overpressure wave of the … Read more

How The Brain Lost Its Mind by Allan Ropper and BD Burrell review: ‘A fascinating investigation’

How The Brain Lost Its Mind Allan Ropper and BD Burrell                                                           Atlantic £17.99  Rating: One of the many pitiable cases described in How The Brain Lost Its … Read more

Finding cure for rare form of brain cancer in dogs may be key to treating humans, study suggests

Brain cancer treatment for DOGS could offer hope for humans with the rare, aggressive tumor that killed John McCain, study suggests Researchers compared glioblastoma samples from dog patients and both adult and children patients  The rare, aggressive form of brain cancer has a five-year survival rate of only 5%  Similarities were seen in the cancer’s gene … Read more

Violinist and brain surgeon reunite after he removed her tumour without destroying talent

The strains of George Gershwin’s Summertime float down the busy corridors of King’s College Hospital in London as violinist Dagmar Turner delivers a near-perfect performance. For a follow-up medical review, it’s rather unorthodox. But consultant neurosurgeon Professor Keyoumars Ashkan listens with rapt attention and delight. The last time he heard Dagmar play this aria was … Read more

Boy, nine, wins £17million NHS payout after he was left brain damaged

Boy, nine, wins £17million NHS payout after he was left brain damaged and needing 24 hour care because medics failed to provide him with enough nutrition when he was born A boy, 9, was left brain damaged after medics failed to provide proper nutrition  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has admitted liability for his … Read more