LITTLE Finn Jordan has made a miracle recovery from a severe brain injury — by COPYING his twin brother.
Finn was diagnosed with a brain tumour the size of a golf ball when he was three months old in February 2008.
Doctors operated on the tumour — but just a week later...
“Don’t be a doctor — they always walk around with poor posture and wear horrible shoes.”
By the time Dr. Fiona Costello’s mother voiced the above warning back in 1991, it was too late: the medicine bug had already bit Costello and there was no turning back....
October is brain tumour awareness month in Canada. Paediatric brain tumours are the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in patients under 20 years and the third most common for ages 21 to 39 years of age. Brain tumours and their treatments can affect almost every part of your body...
ORR LAKE – Terilyn Harber celebrated her 21st birthday on Wednesday, but, instead of partying with friends, the Orr Lake cottager decided to swim 2.2 kilometres across the lake.
Harber, about to start her third year at the University of Toronto, where she majors in biology and...
HUNTERSVILLE — Nestled down a road that seems dedicated to farms — Black Farms Road is lined with farms and trees — is Hinds’ Feet Farm, a small therapeutic farm designed to help sufferers of traumatic brain injuries.
There, adults who have suffered brain injuries...
(CNN) -- It's become a classic scenario: You have a headache and after Googling it, you find out a headache can be a sign of a brain tumor.
If you rush to the emergency room suspicious that you have a tumor or something else deadly serious, chances are you're being paranoid. But...
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