brain damage

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Baby Alissa suffered severe brain damage due to a lack of oxygen caused by the placenta coming away from the womb wall.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

After an aneurysm, your former life, free from the threat of death, of brain damage, of another aneurysm, is gone and buried.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Despite its growing impact, there is currently no cure and no widely used screening method that can detect the disease early, before it causes significant and often irreversible brain damage.

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 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

How many games of Go Fish can a normal thirteen-year-old boy play with his grandma without suffering permanent brain damage?

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick