Brain-eating-amoeba infections are extremely rare, but when they do strike, they are almost always deadly, killing around 97% of victims. Such infections are caused by free-living amoebas, such as ...

Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost, like moving a hand. These devices record signals from the brain and decipher the ...

Doctors believe a woman who died from rare brain-eating amoebas used tap water to rinse her sinuses. The 69-year-old Seattle resident died in February after undergoing brain surgery at Swedish Medical ...

Nearly a quarter million Floridians are being warned to avoid washing their face with tap water after a man died from a brain-eating amoeba in February. The advice, which applies to the nearly 200,000 ...

When it comes to relieving sinus congestion with nasal irrigation using a neti pot, do yourself a favor and think twice before using regular tap water. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

A person in Florida has died after being infected with the rare brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.The infection possibly resulted from "sinus rinse practices utilizing tap water," according to a ...

Here's a grim reminder about nasal irrigation safety: a 71-year-old Texas woman is dead after using RV campground tap water in her sinus rinse device, reports CBS News. The CDC reports she contracted ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

A Texas woman has died after contracting a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba while using tap water to clear out her ...

A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after cleaning her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report. The woman, ...