Gal Gadot has revealed she underwent emergency surgery for a “massive” blood clot in her brain during the eighth month of her recent pregnancy. In a post on her official Instagramthe Wonder Woman star shared details of her harrowing health emergency earlier this year. “In February, during my eighth month of pregnancy, I was diagnosed […]
PHOENIX — Mayo Clinic announces the results of an innovative treatment approach that may offer improvement in overall survival in older patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma while maintaining quality of life. Glioblastoma is the most lethal type of primary brain cancer due to its aggressive nature and its treatment-resistant characteristics. It is the most common […]
Research suggests machine learning can assist clinicians with diagnoses, treatment Imagine a world where neurological diagnoses are made with greater precision, treatment decisions are supported by data-driven insights and early detection is more frequent. This is the vision driving new research from the Mayo Clinic Neurology Artificial Intelligence Program (NAIP), where artificial intelligence (AI) […]
The maxim “movement is medicine” exists for a reason. When done safely and properly, physical activity can boost your moodbone health and more. While the connection between exercise and, say, muscle development is apparent, some of its benefits are less obvious. One of these relates to brain health. Research shows that exercise can lower your […]
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42 percent in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16 to 24 say they’ve never […]
That mind is partly revealed through Herzog’s running narration, such as when he muses about collective behavior and whether fish have souls—a digression sparked by his interview with Siri co-inventor Tom Gruber. “In the background, I saw his TV screen still on, we didn’t switch it off, and I saw some very, very strange school […]
Topline A new Netflix special from actor Jamie Foxx revealed he suffered a “brain bleed that led to a stroke” before disappearing from the public eye for months in 2023 and addressed some of the more rampant rumors that speculated on the cause of his mysterious health crisis—including unsubstantiated claims Sean “Diddy” Combs was somehow […]
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet that healthy vertebrates can have brain microbiomes. Samuel Velasco / Quanta Magazine The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Bacteria are in, around and all over us. They thrive in almost every corner of the planet, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, to high up in the […]
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil was in the hospital recovering from the procedure. Doctors said the bleeding appeared to be linked to a fall in October.
Alex Smith was 11 years old when he lost his right arm in 2003. A drunk driver operating a boat collided with his family’s vessel on Lake Austin, sending him overboard. He hit a propeller, and his arm was severed in the water. A year later, he got a myoelectric arm, a type of prosthetic […]
