neurosurgery

The neurosurgeon was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull last year in Australia and used forceps to pull out the 3-inch-long living parasite.

For people with drug-resistant epilepsy, surgery used to be seen as a last resort. Now it's often the treatment of choice.

A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.

A Washington Post analysis of 125,000 records of Florida patients who underwent spinal fusion found that about half had diagnoses that experts and…