923 plain-language articles across 60 topics — symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing — written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
After brain surgery, most people can expect a short stay under close monitoring, headaches and incision soreness, marked fatigue, swelling or bruising around the…
A neurosurgeon is a surgeon who diagnoses and treats conditions of the brain, spinal cord, spine and peripheral nerves, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis,…
A neurologist is a physician who diagnoses and manages conditions of the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles without operating, using examination, imaging, nerve…
Roughly half of people who have a ruptured brain aneurysm do not survive, according to figures quoted by Cleveland Clinic and the NHS; NHS…
A neurosurgeon is a physician who diagnoses and surgically treats conditions of the brain, spinal cord, spine and peripheral nerves, including herniated disks, spinal…
No one can guarantee a brain aneurysm will never form, because age, sex and inherited vessel weaknesses are outside anyone's control. What the evidence…
Survival after a brain aneurysm depends almost entirely on whether it has ruptured. Most unruptured aneurysms never bleed; small ones in the front of…
Most brain aneurysms cause no symptoms until they leak or rupture. The hallmark sign of a rupture is a sudden, explosive headache that peaks…
Brain aneurysms form when a weak spot in an artery wall, often where vessels branch, balloons outward under years of blood pressure. Most develop…
Life expectancy after brain tumor surgery varies enormously because it depends far more on the tumor than on the operation. Many people with a…
Osteosarcoma is the most common bone cancer in children and teenagers, usually starting near the knee or shoulder during the adolescent growth spurt. Early…
Metastatic osteosarcoma is bone cancer that has spread beyond the bone where it began, most often to the lungs and less commonly to other…
Osteosarcoma prognosis depends mostly on whether the cancer has spread when it is found, where the tumor sits in the skeleton, how thoroughly it…
Early brain tumor symptoms depend on where the tumor sits, but the most commonly reported are new or changing headaches (often worse in the…
Glioblastoma is rarely hereditary. Most cases arise from genetic changes that occur in brain cells during a person's lifetime and cannot be passed on.…
Brain tumor survival rate is a population average, not a personal forecast. Roughly one in three adults diagnosed with a malignant primary brain tumor…
Brain tumor prognosis depends less on the words "brain tumor" than on the specific diagnosis: the tumor's type and WHO grade, its molecular features,…
Across mainstream cancer registries, roughly 7 in 10 people whose osteosarcoma is confined to the bone where it started are alive five years after…
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