Women using progestogen contraceptives had a significantly increased risk of meningioma, the most common type of benign brain tumor. Consistent with other recent studies, injectable ...

A team of researchers at the University of Warwick and Monash University has solved a puzzle that has stumped drug developers for decades: how bacteria naturally create multiple versions of powerful ...

Researchers believe the patient may have contracted the parasitic tapeworm by sharing a bathroom with someone who was infected Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

There might not be a more horrifying good-news, bad-news scenario than this recent report from doctors in Spain. They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he ...

Talk about a wriggly situation. When a man in Spain went to the hospital with chronic headaches, brain scans showed poorly defined lesions, or tissue where the edges are blurred due to abnormal cell ...

Researchers have identified a vitamin B12–based compound that can cross the blood-brain barrier and home in on glioblastoma tumors. In animal studies, the compound accumulated preferentially in tumor ...

A 60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle changes in ...

Researchers at Oregon State University have potentially found a new way to treat the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, whose two-year survival rate is less than 30%. The study, led ...

The startup Coherence Neuro is now testing a brain-computer interface that could one day use electrical stimulation to prevent tumors from growing. Coherence Neuro says it temporarily placed its ...

A clinical trial is exploring whether high doses of vitamin B3 could give patients with glioblastoma a better chance against the aggressive brain cancer. Scientists found that niacin may help revive ...