Despite the advances in antibiotic treatments, ear infections can still lead to severe neurological complications such as ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now revealed new insights into the mechanisms of bacterial brain invasion and ...

Bacterial meningitis, often fatal if untreated, leads to inflammation around the brain and may cause severe complications ...

The brain, the command center to your entire nervous system. And yet the tiniest of germs can bring this complex organ to a halt. Meningitis is caused by germs that can do just that-- an infection ...

When it attacks the tissues, or meninges, of the brain and spinal cord it's called meningitis. Nancy Ford Springer The child may be vomiting, may have a headache, may have high fever, may have a ...

In meningitis, the bacteria attack the lining around the brain called the meninges. They breach the meninges to infect the fluid running into the spinal cord. One clear, early symptom is a stiff ...

Meningitis is inflammation of the fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord that usually develops due to an infection. Type C meningitis is a type of bacterial meningitis caused by the bacteria ...

The following is a summary of “Intracranial complications in adult patients with severe pneumococcal meningitis: a ...

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A nine-month-old baby was left with severe brain damage after her meningitis was misdiagnosed as tonsillitis, an inquest has heard. Kate Pierce was sent home from Wrexham Maelor Hospital in March ...