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

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

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 ...

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

WHEN Livia Wilson came home from a festival with a bad headache, her mum thought she had simply “overdone it”. The 19-year-old waitress from York popped some paracetamol and put ...

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

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

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

The brain and the CSF are protected by the meninges, composed of three layers of connective tissue: the pia, arachnoid, and dura layers. The skull surrounds the meninges. The brain regions interact ...

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 ...

Meningitis in infants, especially bacterial, is a severe condition requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment. Symptoms can include fever, irritability, and poor feeding. Different types include ...

Here, we utilized high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) techniques to investigate the transcriptional response of the meninges to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and aging in the sub-acute and chronic ...