Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis.
Tucson residents Jackie Boorse and Heather Thrall Roscoe call themselves "shunt sisters" for the brain shunts they each have to manage a rare neurological disorder. Boorse, 28, and Thrall Roscoe, 39, ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A simple shunt can restore walking ability and independence in elderly people with a rare brain condition, a major new clinical trial has found. Implanting ...
Dr. Michael A. Williams, professor of neurology and neurological surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a hydrocephalus experts, holds an example of a valve for a brain shunt ...
In this Innovation Spotlight, Dan Levangie, president and chief executive officer of CereVasc, discusses a new treatment strategy for NPH using an endovascularly implantable CSF shunt that minimizes ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, ...
Evangelist Billy Graham underwent successful surgery yesterday to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain, and was expected to remain in the hospital for several days. Graham was listed ...
As a medical student learning differential diagnosis, I was taught, “If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.” In general, this makes sense. Practitioners generally consider the likely causes ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Commission President Blair Couch was back at commission on Thursday after undergoing an operation the previous week to deal with swelling in his brain. “I had excess cerebral ...
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