An experimental technique developed in Canada, known as focused ultrasound, is allowing doctors to do brain surgery using precision imaging and sound waves instead of scalpels and surgical saws. The ...

One Italian woman gave new meaning to multi-tasking. A 60-year-old woman with a brain tumour stuffed olives while receiving brain surgery at Ospedali Riuniti, a hospital in Italy’s Marche region. In ...

Brain tumour surgeries are now getting better with doctors using minimally invasive techniques, which can remove brain tumours with less disruption. Known as endoscopic brain surgery, it involves the ...

Cyla Daniels agreed to let The Globe and Mail into the operating room as doctors opened her skull and burrowed into her brain in search of a deep-seated tumour, waking her up to test her speech, ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto are developing microrobots, precisely controlled by magnetic fields, that could one day be used to perform minimally invasive brain surgery on children. The ...

As a young girl, Sophie Cowin loved to draw, was intrigued by mythology, and dreamed of one day being a marine biologist so she could study the creatures under the sea. Hers was a typical childhood, ...