Socioeconomic Status and Short-term Glioblastoma Survival: Does it Make a Difference?
The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted socioeconomic differences in health care access detrimental to the outcome, including a per capita excess mortality highest among the Black and Latino population. The prognostic role of socioeconomic factors for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) has been hotly debated. GBM is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in […]
Introduction to Tumor Focus Series: Bringing “Better” to Our Patients in Multiple Ways
Neurosurgery has historically been a uniquely wide-ranging and varied specialty. Unlike other specialties that focus on a particular organ system or body region, neurosurgery is quite literally a “head-to-toe” specialty dealing with the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and the other organs intimately related to the nervous system. Neurosurgeons classically had to be experts in […]
Clinical Neuroscience in Action: Neurosurgery’s Contribution to Mapping the Human Brain
Guest post written by multiple neurosurgeons from the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF. Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper, MD FAANS (left); Edward F. Chang, MD FAANS (center); and Mitchel S. Berger, MD FAANS (right). Philosophers, theologians, and scientists have been interested in the mechanisms responsible for human thought and behavior since the earliest days of recorded […]
Neurosurgery Endorses H. Res. 366 Designating May 2019 as Stroke Awareness Month
In May and June during our focus effort on topics related to vascular neurosurgery, we would be remiss if we didn’t recognize that May is National Stroke Awareness Month. To this end, we wanted to highlight that on May 9, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) introduced a resolution, H. Res. 366, designating May 2019 as “Stroke […]
#StrokeMonth Video: Signs and Symptoms of Stroke
In May and June during our focus effort on topics related to vascular neurosurgery, we would be remiss if we didn’t recognize that May is National Stroke Awareness Month. To this end, throughout May, we will be highlighting several #StrokeMonth video blogs to help raise awareness about this important topic. In the video below, neurosurgeon […]
Cross Post – A Battle for My Life
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Since we are smack-dab in the middle of our focus on topics related to vascular neurosurgery, we wanted to bring attention to an article that recently appeared in The New Yorker on […]
#StrokeMonth Video: Get Help Fast When You Have a Stroke!
In May and June during our focus effort on topics related to vascular neurosurgery, we would be remiss if we didn’t recognize that May is National Stroke Awareness Month. To this end, throughout May, we will be highlighting several #strokemonth video blogs to help raise awareness about this important topic. Stroke is the fifth leading […]
Vascular Neurosurgery: Technological Innovation Where Every Minute Counts
Kimon Bekelis, MD (left)Director of the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center and co-director of the Neuro ICU at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterChairman, Neurointerventional Services at Catholic Health Services of Long Island West Islip, NY Clemens M. Schirmer, MD, PhD, FAANS, FAHA (right)Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations CommitteeGeisingerWilkes Barre, PA Cerebrovascular disorders often come […]
Brain Aneurysms – Voices Coming Together for Change
Guest post from Christine J. Buckley Executive Director, Brain Aneurysm Foundation Brain aneurysms continue to be the underdog in the world of stroke in every way: awareness, education, advocacy and research funding. With one in 50 people in the United States walking around with an undiagnosed brain aneurysm and 30,000 people experiencing a rupture — […]
Cross Post – Anniversary of Konrad Reuland Tragedy Reminds Us of the Toll of Brain Aneurysms
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Today’s post originally appeared in The Conversation on Nov. 21, 2017. In the article, Brian L. Hoh, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA, a neurosurgeon from Gainesville, Fla., […]