Scientists have, for the first time, mapped in exquisite three-dimensional detail six major conformations of a membrane in ...

The startup Coherence Neuro is now testing a brain-computer interface that could one day use electrical stimulation to prevent tumors from growing. Coherence Neuro says it temporarily placed its ...

Women using progestogen contraceptives had a significantly increased risk of meningioma, the most common type of benign brain tumor. Consistent with other recent studies, injectable ...

Researchers believe the patient may have contracted the parasitic tapeworm by sharing a bathroom with someone who was infected Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

There might not be a more horrifying good-news, bad-news scenario than this recent report from doctors in Spain. They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he ...

A 60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle changes in ...

“It was completely harrowing," Jack Dilger said of his mother's diagnosis, which eventually led to 13 brain surgeries in two years Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She ...

Talk about a wriggly situation. When a man in Spain went to the hospital with chronic headaches, brain scans showed poorly defined lesions, or tissue where the edges are blurred due to abnormal cell ...

Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer research has been linking the "big picture" seen in medical scans with the ...

Researchers have identified a vitamin B12–based compound that can cross the blood-brain barrier and home in on glioblastoma tumors. In animal studies, the compound accumulated preferentially in tumor ...