Would you plant a chip in your brain if it promised to detect or even prevent cancer? Three people agreed to do just that. San Francisco-based longevity company Coherence Neuro briefly placed an ...

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 ...

“It was completely harrowing," Jack Dilger said of his mother's diagnosis, which eventually led to 13 brain surgeries in two years Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

We’ve long known that healthy eating is linked to better brain health. Now there’s even more evidence, just published in the journal JAMA Network Open, that an anti-inflammatory diet may play an ...

Every summer, millions of Americans wade into the warm waters of Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Lake Mead without a second thought. Now, a new study gives them something to think about. Researchers ...