DEAR DR. ROACH: For several months, I’ve been suffering with severe lower-back pain while standing. It radiates down, into my buttocks. Several weeks of physical therapy was not helpful, and I can’t ...

Schwannomas are benign tumors forming along peripheral nerves that can cause deafness, pain and paralysis. Current treatment involves surgical resection, which can damage associated nerves. To achieve ...

For the first time in the world, endoscopic transcanal excision of facial nerve schwannoma was performed on a 35-year-old patient at Apollo Cancer Centre, Bangalore, India. Facial nerve schwannoma, ...

Financial advisor, author and former CNBC host Suze Orman has always stressed that it is a mistake for people to ignore their money problems. Now she wants you to know that "the most vital and stupid ...

Facial nerve schwannomas (FNS) are rare tumors that arise from the Schwann cells, which are responsible for the myelin sheath surrounding nerves. These tumors can occur anywhere along the facial nerve ...

Schwannomas are tumors of the peripheral nervous system, which often occur in the genetic disease neurofibromatosis type 2. The research group of Prof. Dr. Helen Morrison at the Leibniz Institute on ...

A new study at Massachusetts Eye and Ear showed that in some cases of vestibular schwannoma, a sometimes-lethal tumor often associated with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), secretions from the tumor contain ...

Gail Cohen was enjoying a day at the beach three years ago when she felt a lump on the back of her left knee and then started to feel numbness in her foot — a scary experience for anybody, but ...

“In brain surgery, particularly involving the hearing and balance nerve, our approach must be exceedingly refined,” said UVA Health's Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD. “This study shows that Gamma Knife ...

Operation removed tumor that was pressing on boy's spinal column. March 25, 2010— -- Roderick "Rod" Ball Jr. was 6 when the first tingling pain began in his leg. Although the MRIs and X-rays ...