Like a Lot of kids, eleven-year-old Marco was diagnosed with scoliosis during a routine check-up with his pediatrician. A local pediatric orthopedist measured and confirmed his scoliosis. No one was worried...

Last month at Grand Rounds, Jennifer Sims, Ph.D., of the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory presented her exciting new research on the deadly tumor, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)...

Dr. Alfred Ogden from the Spine Center tells us there is a new and highly effective non-invasive treatment for spinal tumors that is often overlooked. The treatment is Stereotactic Spinal Radiosurgery and with it, surgeons use X-Rays to pinpoint a tumor in the spine without harming...

Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow revealed Tuesday, June 6, 2012 that she has a benign meningioma tumor in her brain...

52 year old singer/songwriter Rob Morsberger gave a special tribute to two of our neurosurgeons, Dr. McKhann and Dr. Lavine, in the liner notes of his latest CD, Ghosts Before Breakfast: “To Dr. Guy McKhann for helping me live to complete this album...to Drs. Lavine, Elkind and all the...

Imagine a war zone where the entire army has shown up to fight the enemy but for some reason won't shoot. For this war to be won, whatever is keeping the soldiers from fighting needs to be found and stopped. This is the situation researchers have recently discovered in their fight against malignant gliomas...

Dr. Jeffrey Bruce, Director of the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory and Co-Director of the Brain Tumor Center provided the Farber Award introductions at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting this month.  This was held at the meeting of the AANS/CNS section on Tumors.

Dr. Guy M. McKhann from the Epilepsy Center co-directed a course on Brain Mapping techniques at the recent American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting.  The clinic focused on ways to map the eloquent cortex in order to remove tumors and treat epilepsy in the safest way...

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Dr. Peter Canoll, a long time collaborator with the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory has just received a $1.8 million grant  for his research "The Role of White Matter Progenitors in Glioma Formation and Progression."  This grant comes from the National Institute of Neurological Disorters and...