Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BrainIAC, a new AI model, analyzes brain MRIs to predict dementia risk, tumor mutations, and brain cancer survival. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers have uncovered the mechanisms behind three unique subtypes of mismatch repair deficient high-grade gliomas. The findings provide a clearer understanding of how these tumors develop, ...

Edward (Ed) Waldner had no idea why he didn't feel well, but he knew he didn't feel like himself. At 55 years of age, he felt exhausted all the time. It didn't seem to matter how hard he had worked ...

Charlie Meza, whose mother, Taylor, documented her life with brain cancer, died at age 9 on Feb. 14 Charlie was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in 2020 when she was just 3 years old “She is free,” ...

Pediatric brain tumors represent a significant health challenge as they are the second most common form of childhood cancer and a leading cause of ...

When patients hear the term brain tumor, they tend to assume cancer. But not all brain tumors are malignant in nature. Many are benign, i.e., they do not get transmitted to other locations of the body ...

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that a single injection of an oncolytic virus—a genetically modified virus that selectively infects and ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden molecular switch that may control how the brain ages. A new study from the Leibniz Institute on Aging reveals how a process called ubiquitylation rewrites the ...

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades. Experts say the findings are the strongest evidence yet that cognitive ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included inaccuracies. People who live in Urbandale's ZIP code 50323 have a breast cancer rate more than two times higher than Iowans who live in Fort ...