BRAIN SURGERY

Three and a half million Americans have epilepsy – a condition where abnormal activity in the brain causes seizures – periods of time where a person loses awareness. When medications don’t work to minimize seizures, surgery may become the only option. Now it may be possible a minimally invasive brain surgery could give people their lives back.

When medications don’t work to minimize seizures, surgery may become the only option. Now it may be possible a minimally invasive brain surgery could give people their lives back.

Cross-country skier Stephen O’Mara has always been passionate about endurance sports. But when he sustained a traumatic brain injury during a 2019 triathlon, doctors feared the elite athlete may have to relearn everything— even walking.

Former President Jimmy Carter underwent a successful surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and was discharged from a Georgia hospital on Wednesday, the Carter Center said.

25-year old Jenna Schardt talked exclusively to NBC 5 about her experience as a patient in an ‘awake’ brain surgery, and why she agreed to stream it live on Facebook.

25-year old Jenna Schardt talked exclusively to NBC 5 about her experience as a patient in an ‘awake’ brain surgery, and why she agreed to stream it live on Facebook.

Tuesday morning, 25-year-old Jenna Schardt will undergo brain surgery at Methodist Dallas Medical Center while conscious in order to remove a mass of blood vessels in her brain – and she wanted the public there with her.

More than 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. For some, laser ablation is the solution to control the onset of seizures. Neurosurgeons are getting closer to having guidelines for doctors to determine how much ablation is just enough to be effective.

Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence, wanted to send his 3-year-old son to Boston for brain surgery and needed visas for his family....
After days of internal debate, the still young Trump administration rejected the request, seeing...

Emilia Clarke is opening up about her health journey. In an essay entitled “A Battle for My Life,” published on The New Yorker’s website on Thursday, the Game of Thrones star reveals that she almost died. Clarke begins the deeply personal piece in 2011, explaining that, to relieve the stress after filming the first season of the HBO series, she...

Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald withdrew his name from consideration for the job as Baltimore’s next police commissioner Monday.

Doctors believe a woman who died from rare brain-eating amoebas used tap water to rinse her sinuses. The 69-year-old Seattle resident died in February after undergoing brain surgery at Swedish Medical Center. Her doctor tells The Seattle Times there was “amoeba all over the place just eating brain cells.” According to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious...

Doctors believe a woman who died from rare brain-eating amoebas used tap water to rinse her sinuses. The 69-year-old Seattle resident died in February after undergoing brain surgery at Swedish Medical Center. Her doctor tells The Seattle Times there was “amoeba all over the place just eating brain cells.” According to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious...

Danielle Spencer, who played the tattletale little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s TV series “What’s Happening!!,” is home in Virginia recuperating from emergency brain surgery after a series of health setbacks.

Students at a Fort Worth elementary school dedicated their Poetry Day to a former classmate who is recovering from brain surgery.

Fed up with not being able to do the simple activities, a North Texas woman regains control of her life with Parkinson’s disease by using deep brain stimulation.

For some patients with primary brain tumors, surgery is the best treatment option. Now, surgeons are getting help from a robot and a very powerful camera.

President Donald Trump honored the Houston Astros at the The White House Monday afternoon after their 2017 World Series win.

President Donald Trump is asking for the nation’s prayers as a young Texas girl prepares to undergo brain surgery at a Boston hospital.

Taping of the game show “Jeopardy!” has been suspended while host Alex Trebek recovers from surgery to remove blood clots from his brain, Trebek and the show’s producer said Thursday. Trebek, 77, who has hosted the show for more than 33 years, said he was diagnosed with the blood clots, a condition called subdural hematoma, in December after he suffered...