brain damage

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In total Helen spent 12 weeks in hospital, and because of the brain damage she suffered, her recovery has been slow.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 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

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