Scishorts: Kenyan Doctors Performed Invasive Brain Surgery on the Wrong Patient

Kenya’s Daily Nation just reported that staff from the Kenyatta National Hospital mixed up two patients’ identification tags just before a surgery. This caused the doctors to perform invasive brain surgery on a patient who needed treatment only for brain swelling. It took them hours to realize that the blood clot they were looking for […]

SciShorts: Alzheimer’s Can Spread Like a Viral Disease

Through studies done on mice, researchers have discovered that Alzheimer’s disease could spread like a viral infection. One of the biggest symptoms of Alzheimer’s is the formation of clumps in the brain. This is due to a protein called amyloid-β. It was discovered that when this protein accumulated in the brain, the connections between regions […]