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There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s ...

Well, it’s not brain surgery.” It’s meant as a joke — a way to say something isn’t that hard. But for me and my colleagues, it is brain surgery. Every single day. And it’s hard in ways that go far ...

JAMES Bradley was waiting for a bus when a car ploughed into him with such force that his brain flipped inside his skull.

Deion Sanders' recent bladder cancer diagnosis sheds light on the importance of early testing for it — especially among Black ...

WAKING up at 4am, Roland Wessling knew immediately that something was wrong. He and his long-term partner, Hazel Woodhams, 30 ...

TJ Rueda, a Coahoma native, has had troubling health issues the past several years. In 2018, Rueda was diagnosed with ...

Los Angeles Sparks star Cameron Brink returned to the WNBA 13 months after tearing her ACL to face off against the Las Vegas ...

Lucknow: The KGMU will soon introduce an interventional radiology facility, often referred to as pin-hole surgery, for cancer ...

One in 6 Black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lives, even more if disease runs in their family. But most ...

Colorado coach Deion Sanders disclosed Monday that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer but after ...

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