aura Casey is facing the reality of turning off life-support for her husband, Seamus Casey, after the celebrated young Christchurch opera singer was hit by a car, leaving him in a coma in Sydney.
Casey, 27, attended Burnside High School and did a Diploma of Performing Arts at the Hagley Theatre Company before moving offshore to [...]

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A few months later, after suffering his first seizure, Mirasola was diagnosed with epilepsy, a condition caused by electrical disturbances emanating from deep within his brain. As the source of his seizures, the faulty impulses have beaten the best of what modern medicine has to offer.
His epilepsy has remained uncontrolled, dominating his [...]

In a paper published in the April issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery, researchers found there was an increased risk of recanalization (re-opening), especially in low-grade aneurysmal subarrachnoid hemorrhage (aneurysm) patients with a history of cigarette smoking, says Erol Veznedaroglu, M.D., associate professor of Neurological Surgery and director of the Division of Neurovascular Surgery and [...]

No one knew what was wrong with her. At age 25 she seemed too young to be having a stroke.
As Jim Cody, 69, lay in his hospital bed recovering from knee replacement surgery, a tiny fat particle traveled to his brain. Soon he was unable to move or talk.
What Cody and Weiler didn’t know [...]

He puts six pills in his mouth and, with a shaky hand, brings a glass of water to his lips. Six down and 19 to go.
Lammers takes 25 pills a day to control his worsening Parkinson’s disease. He has to use a partially filled glass of water, just like everything else he drinks, because his [...]