Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days that follow. For many other organs, blood tests can indicate acute injury, ...

Researchers gave the patients verbal commands and measured patients’ mental activity through brain wave tests and functional MRIs. When a patient with a brain injury is unresponsive, doctors turn to ...

A rapid blood test could speed treatment for people who have suffered a stroke related to brain bleeding, a new study says. Stroke victims with brain bleeds have nearly seven times higher blood levels ...

11 nurses from Newton-Wellesley Hospital reported brain tumors or related health issues after working in the same labor and delivery unit. The hospital says an extensive internal and external ...

A blood test may rapidly distinguish brain bleeds from clot-caused strokes, even before people with stroke symptoms reach the emergency room, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the ...

Five Mass General Brigham Newton-Wellesley Hospital nurses in the hospital’s fifth-floor maternal care labor and delivery unit have been diagnosed with non-malignant brain tumors. An internal ...