An immediate scan showed her brain was swelling fast. A normal scan should have dark spaces that have fluid, but Sarah Stevenson’s showed it was fully swollen. She didn’t have an ID on her ...

With a $159,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association, Indiana University’s Claudia Mera Reina is on a mission to unravel the biological chain reaction that connects brain trauma to Alzheimer’s. Mera ...

HOOD RIVER COUNTY, Ore. — Health officials are investigating three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare and fatal brain disorder, identified in Hood River County over the past eight months ...

Minnesota (WCCO) — A Twin Cities zoo had to euthanize one of its gorillas this week, despite a yearslong effort to treat the ape’s deteriorating brain. Nyati, who was born at Como Park Zoo and ...

(CNN) — Babies’ and children’s mattresses and bedding emit toxic chemicals and flame retardants associated with developmental and hormonal disorders, according to two new studies. “We ...

NEWTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts is telling patients that an ongoing investigation has found no evidence that nurses on the fifth floor developed brain ...

(CNN) — Heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of a type of brain injury linked with memory and thinking problems. That’s according to a new study in which researchers defined heavy ...