One class of drugs has already found success in treating the painful, disorienting and common attacks. Excitement is building ...

Meningitis is an infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord (the meninges) and is most often caused by viruses or ...

Caused by Cryptococcus fungi, a fungus ubiquitous in nature, cryptococcal meningitis specifically attacks people with ...

Spinal meningitis is the inflammation of tissues, called the meninges, that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. It usually stems from an infection, leading to symptoms such as a stiff neck ...

Both of these can dislodge a blood clot and require medical intervention even if the leak is small. A cerebrospinal (CSF) leak occurs when a hole develops in the meninges surrounding the brain and ...

To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized ...

Meningitis is an infection that causes inflammation of the membranes (the meninges) covering the brain and spinal cord. Bacterial meningitis is a true medical emergency that may result in death or ...

The emergence of concerns surrounding the association between Depo-Provera and severe health risks, including meningioma, ...

This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...

Among the patients who visit the hospital due to back pain, the most diagnosed disease is 'intervertebral disc ...

The mother of a “beautiful” 19-year-old from York who died after unknowingly contracting a rare deadly illness is calling for ...

Laila Simnett was in her second week at university when she started feeling unwell. But she had no idea how serious things ...