Sophia Watson is in urgent need of life-saving treatment for a tumor, but an insurance dispute has left her parents without coverage.

The vagus nerve is so named because it “wanders” like a vagabond, sending out sensory fibers from your brainstem to your ...

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As Monica prepares for her third brain surgery, this time she'll receive an innovative new implant specifically designed for ...

On the one hand, it can help slow tumor growth, improve symptoms ... “The things that I worry about are the optic nerves or optic apparatus which control your vision. There’s the brainstem, which is, ...

Pancreatic cancer is fueled by connections to the nervous system. This is reported by scientists from the German Cancer ...

Researchers have found that a cancer outside the brain makes electrical connections with the nervous system to fuel cancer growth and aid its spread.

Nerves cut—tumors shrink When the sympathetic nerve connections to the pancreas were surgically severed or destroyed with special neurotoxins, tumor growth was significantly inhibited. At the ...

The team discovered that the tumor specifically reprograms the neurons for its own benefit. In mice, blocking nerve function inhibited cancer growth and increased the sensitivity of tumor cells to ...

“This stroke also causes irreversible loss of vision in one eye.” “The ninth patient developed swelling in both optic nerves but did not lose vision,” Katz added.

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A pioneering team at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in the US say they successfully treated a child diagnosed with SMA ...