Craniosynostosis is a birth defect that affects one in every 2,500 live births. A newborn with the condition has a misshapen skull because one or more sutures closed too soon. My son was born with ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Skull base surgeon and innovator of minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques Paul A. Gardner, MD, joins NYU Langone Health's Department of Neurosurgery to ...

Ido Simyoni has fibrous dysplasia and benign tumors grow into his skull. A doctor performed 2 surgeries to reduce infection and reconstruct his forehead. When Ido Simyoni was 15, doctors diagnosed him ...

Even by modern standards, performing skull surgery on a living person is considered a complicated procedure, which is why it might be surprising to learn that the oldest known case of skull surgery in ...

Everything we have in the modern-day had to start somewhere. And as we learn more about the ancient world, the origins of certain ideas become clearer. For example, a recently discovered ancient skull ...

When Ido Simyoni was 15, doctors diagnosed him with fibrous dysplasia, a condition where scar-like tissue forms instead of bone and causes benign tumors. Simyoni’s condition affected his skull, and ...

The skull base (or cranial base) is the region where the nose and sinuses, with the rest of the head/neck, meet the brain. For patients with malignant tumors involving the nose, sinuses and skull base ...

Scientists analyzed the skull of a medieval woman who once lived in central Italy and found evidence that she experienced at least two brain surgeries consistent with the practice of trepanation, ...