She died a few months later after whole-brain radiation therapy.
Two years after his brain-cancer diagnosis, he recently ran a sub-five-minute mile for the first time since high school.
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Both men are now gone - Burns died in 2005 after a long battle against a brain tumour - but their legacy remains.
Because livers donated after cardiac death have sometimes been linked to worse outcomes after transplant compared to brain-death donations, the fact that more cardiac-death organs were discarded did not surprise the researchers.
The Cape Verde international was promoted to first-choice keeper after spending last season as back-up to Jon Brain who is now with Walsall.
Kennedy died Tuesday night in Hyannis Port after a 15-month battle with brain cancer.
Kennedy died Tuesday night after a 15-month battle with brain cancer.
Patients contracted fungal meningitis -- which results in inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord -- after their spines were injected with a contaminated, preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate, health officials have said.
Shortly after, doctors diagnosed a brain tumor -- a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe.
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It looks after many forms of specialised care - from brain surgery to transplants, eating disorders to cancer care.
Malala "has no long-lasting brain injuries" after being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen last October, her brain surgeon, Dr. Anwen White, said Monday.
Nick Colgin, who served for 15 months in Afghanistan as a combat medic, suffered a traumatic brain injury after a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into his Humvee.
After a long-haul flight, your confused brain is expected to retrieve every item you own among a jumble of possessions in around ten seconds.
Important insights to emerge from the panel included the plasticity of the brain in recovering from traumatic injury over time, as well as preliminary studies suggesting that certain genetic mutations may influence susceptibility and recovery after traumatic brain injury as well as early-onset dementia.
But they admitted that it was possible the child's brain was not replaced after the post-mortem.
They studied the nerve cells that regulate appetite using a 'genetic fate mapping' technique and found that some cells added neurons to the appetite-regulating circuitry of the mouse brain after birth and into adulthood.
Compared with darkness, exposure to red light boosted alertness: The EEGs showed a significant reduction in brain-wave activity associated with sleepiness after five minutes.
The 15-year-old's brain swelled dangerously days after the shooting, so doctors in Pakistan extracted a section of her skull about the size of a hand.
He found that the aircrew given the shorter period to "turn around" after a jet-lagging flight had an area of the brain called the temporal lobe which was noticeably smaller than the others.
Fifteen-year-old Michael McIlveen died from brain injuries the day after he and two friends were attacked in 2006.
Tributes have been paid to an 11-year-old boy who has died from a brain tumour after raising thousands of pounds for charity.
He was brought to a local hospital conscious and alert and after a four-hour surgery, doctors removed the object without any brain damage.
If a swimmer is resuscitated after the four-minute mark, there's a high risk of brain damage.
In a 1999 article in the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesiology, Gail A. Van Norman, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, reported a case in which a 30-year-old patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.
Besides, it turns out the human brain may not work on a top-down hierarchical model after all.
Its onset probably has to do with significant changes in the neuroendocrine (brain-hormone) system leading up to and occurring just after birth.
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The most severe complication of measles - occurring in only one in 100, 000 cases - is a slowly-progressive brain disorder which does not normally show until some time after the original infection, causing seizures and even death.
Most researchers are focusing on blocking the formation of amyloid-beta protein or removing it from the brain, either before or after deposits are formed.
British nursery school teacher Kate Bainbridge went into a near-vegetative state for four months starting in June 1997 after a virus caused severe brain inflammation.
Using brain-imaging studies, Carlson and her colleagues have shown that after just a few months, people who volunteer show beneficial changes in their brains similar to those that other research teams have seen with exercise.
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