A new study reported that using shunt tubing impregnated with two common antibiotics is effective in preventing infection after brain surgery to relieve hydrocephalus. This simple but highly effective ...

Dr. Michael A. Williams, professor of neurology and neurological surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a hydrocephalus experts, holds an example of a valve for a brain shunt ...

Using information in medical records for more than 1,100 emergency room visits, researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's ...

A new wireless, Band-Aid-like sensor could revolutionize the way patients manage hydrocephalus, a potentially life-threatening condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain. A tube or 'shunt' ...

Girls who received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt for infantile hydrocephalus had an increased risk of early puberty, particularly those with myelomeningocele and repeated shunt revisions, a ...

September is Hydrocephalus Awareness Month. You might be asking “hydro what?” That’s exactly what I asked when my doctor called me nine years ago, after doing a brain MRI, to tell me I had ...

More than eight years ago my life changed. I was now a mom to three children. But the wind was knocked out of my sail when, at just two days old, the doctors said my newborn son had suffered a brain ...