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 ...

A new wireless, Band-Aid-like sensor could revolutionize the way patients manage hydrocephalus, a potentially life-threatening condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain. A tube or 'shunt' ...

Brisbane woman Rebecca Austin was born with hydrocephalus, or fluid on the brain. Hydrocephalus is an abnormal build-up of cerebrospinal fluid within cavities inside the brain The most common ...

PARENTS of an infant with internal hydrocephalus are interested, whether or not they are aware of it or admit it to themselves, not in survival of their child but in a chance for normal development.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- “It’s like a plumbing problem, that’s what you have.” Those were the words my neurosurgeon, Dr. Jeffrey Wisoff said as he handed me a copy of “Just like any Other Little Beagle, ...

We've all woken up with a headache: perhaps a self-inflicted dull ache after a night on the tiles, or maybe a recurring, stress-induced migraine. Twenty-nine-year-old Liverpudlian Simon Lannon wakes ...

The progression of Alzheimer's disease might be slowed by draining cerebrospinal fluid from the brain, according to pilot data in AD patients reported in the Archives of Neurology and at the American ...

Most people simply take ibuprofen when they get a headache. But for someone with hydrocephalus – a potentially life-threatening condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain --a headache can ...