brain surgery

Cross-country skier Stephen O’Mara has always been passionate about endurance sports. But when he sustained a traumatic brain injury during a 2019 triathlon, doctors feared the elite athlete may have to relearn everything— even walking.

A family had an important surgery for their daughter postponed due to COVID-19 surge across the county. NBC 7’s Amber Frias reports.

At Rady Children’s Hospital officials say about four surgeries are being postponed every day. At UC San Diego Health, 27 surgeries were postponed Wednesday alone. And at Scripps Health officials say they too have had to postpone surgeries due to staffing shortages.

Former President Jimmy Carter underwent a successful surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and was discharged from a Georgia hospital on Wednesday, the Carter Center said.

With the dream of being a child psychologist, a young woman from Orange County faced a medical condition that put her on the verge of life and death. The medical team at UC Irvine conducted a surgery that saved her life.

Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence, wanted to send his 3-year-old son to Boston for brain surgery and needed visas for his family....
After days of internal debate, the still young Trump administration rejected the request, seeing...

Emilia Clarke is opening up about her health journey. In an essay entitled “A Battle for My Life,” published on The New Yorker’s website on Thursday, the Game of Thrones star reveals that she almost died. Clarke begins the deeply personal piece in 2011, explaining that, to relieve the stress after filming the first season of the HBO series, she...

Doctors believe a woman who died from rare brain-eating amoebas used tap water to rinse her sinuses. The 69-year-old Seattle resident died in February after undergoing brain surgery at Swedish Medical Center. Her doctor tells The Seattle Times there was “amoeba all over the place just eating brain cells.” According to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious...

Doctors believe a woman who died from rare brain-eating amoebas used tap water to rinse her sinuses. The 69-year-old Seattle resident died in February after undergoing brain surgery at Swedish Medical Center. Her doctor tells The Seattle Times there was “amoeba all over the place just eating brain cells.” According to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious...

Danielle Spencer, who played the tattletale little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s TV series “What’s Happening!!,” is home in Virginia recuperating from emergency brain surgery after a series of health setbacks.

President Donald Trump honored the Houston Astros at the The White House Monday afternoon after their 2017 World Series win.

Taping of the game show “Jeopardy!” has been suspended while host Alex Trebek recovers from surgery to remove blood clots from his brain, Trebek and the show’s producer said Thursday. Trebek, 77, who has hosted the show for more than 33 years, said he was diagnosed with the blood clots, a condition called subdural hematoma, in December after he suffered...

President Donald Trump’s agenda on healthcare was shuttered as Senators voted not to repeal Obamacare early this morning. Senator John McCain, just a week post brain surgery and with black-and-blue bruising on his face, cast the decisive no vote that failed the Republican’s seven-year effort to repeal Obamacare.Here’s the top 7 moments from the skinny repeal’s...

A final Senate push to repeal and replace Obamacare failed with three Republicans voting “no,” including Sens. John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.

California health officials are fining Redwood City-based Sequoia Hospital $47,452 for erroneously removing a patient’s ovaries last year. The Peninsula facility is one of 14 hospitals facing 17 penalties issued by the California Department of Public Health on Thursday. Accused of not complying with “licensing requirements that caused, or were likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients,” the...

Former U.S. soccer star Lauren Holiday has been diagnosed with a brain tumor while pregnant, and her husband, New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, is taking indefinite leave from the NBA club to care for his wife, the Pelicans said Sunday.

It sounds like a sci-fi story plot, but an Indiana woman who underwent surgery in Los Angeles to have a tumor removed from her brain was found to be carrying her embryonic twin.