Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dad plays guitar while having surgery to remove kiwi-sized brain tumor A dad-of-five had a tumor the size of a kiwi removed from ...

LONDON -- Seeing a patient stay awake during brain surgery isn't just something you see on your favorite medical TV drama. It happens more than you think. Most recently, it happened in London at ...

When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use "awake brain mapping" to minimize the risk of causing unintended disruptions to a patient's quality of life while removing as much ...

In a remarkable demonstration of advanced medical care and patient resilience, NMC Specialty Hospital, Al Nahda, Dubai, has successfully performed a high-precision awake brain surgery on a Dubai-based ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. On Tuesday morning, the staff at ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

A rare look at brain surgery with the patient alert and awake at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. Anthony Munoz has a brain tumor that is not cancerous. Neurosurgeon Dr. Jennifer Moliterno, ...

Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw her finger ...