brain damage

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Helen Edwards could never have imagined a virus she may have had since childhood would leave her with brain damage.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

He defended crafts chain Michael’s against claims that toxic levels of carbon monoxide at one of its stores caused brain damage to an employee’s unborn daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Evangeline Lilly says she has brain damage after fainting and falling on a boulder at a beach in Hawaii last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Three months ago, another international team of scientists involving researchers in China, Spain and the U.K. also found they were able to undo physical brain damage in mice that resulted from Alzheimer’s.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

Because pneumoencephalography could cause permanent brain damage and paralysis, it was abandoned in the 1970s.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot