Author: Channing

The Pediatric Neuro-Oncology program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital recently joined a prestigious network of the nation’s top childhood cancer centers. That development widens treatment options for children whose brain tumors don’t respond to standard care.

Using a laser probe, neurosurgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have opened the brain’s protective cover, enabling them to deliver chemotherapy drugs to patients with a form of deadly brain cancer.

A team of neurosurgeons and engineers has developed wireless brain sensors that monitor intracranial pressure and temperature and then are absorbed by the body, negating the need for surgery to remove the devices.