brain tumor

Home for the holidays has a significant meaning for one boy in Southington. The 11-year-old has been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor for most of the year. On Christmas Eve, Ben Marek got his homecoming, and a huge welcome from the community. Marek was greeted with signs, balloons, cheers, and celebration. Many of the homes on the street put…

More than 800 people attended a parade for Ben Marek as he returned to his home for the first time in 10 months

Nick Cannon is opening up about his final moments with his 5-month-old son, Zen.

Many people in the Southington community are rallying around a 10-year-old boy battling a very serious medical condition. The parents of Ben Marek said their son was diagnosed with a brain tumor and is currently on life support in the Intensive Care Unit at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. This weekend, Southington’s HQ Garden Center helped them. The garden center,...

Many people in the Southington community are rallying around a 10-year-old boy battling a very serious medical condition.

She died on Christmas Eve after battling cancer since September.

UConn Health Neuro-Oncologist Dr. Kevin Becker explains what you need to know.

Fox Nation host and former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry said Thursday that she will undergo surgery for a brain tumor, NBC News reports.

Kelly Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, plans to have surgery to remove a brain tumor.

Jim Gaffigan talks about his wife’s recovery from a brain tumor and how the last three films he worked on will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

Despite a strong economy, about 40 percent of American families struggled to meet at least one of their basic needs last year, including paying for food, health care, housing or utilities. That’s according to an Urban Institute survey of nearly 7,600 adults that found that the difficulties were most prevalent among adults with lower incomes or health issues. But it...

Longtime Trumbull High School English teacher Clayton Curtiss is preparing for his fourth Closer to Free Ride in support of the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven.

“Catastrophe” star and co-creator Rob Delaney says his young son has died from cancer. He memorializes the boy as “smart, funny, and mischievous” in a Facebook post. Delaney says Henry Delaney was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016. After surgery to remove the tumor and treatment early last year, the cancer returned in the fall, and Henry died in...

U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a “very poor prognosis” as he battles brain cancer. McCain underwent surgery in July for a brain tumor that was later found to be a form of glioblastoma, the same type of cancer that took the life of his former Senate colleague Edward M. Kennedy in 2009. McCain tells CBS’ “60...

It’s been three months since Maria Menounos had surgery to remove a benign meningioma brain tumor, and the television host says despite some lingering symptoms, she’s getting better every day. “Overall, I feel so lucky to be functioning and to be almost normal and to not have cancer,” the 39-year-old told TODAY in her first live interview since the surgery....

Sen. Ron Johnson suggested that fellow Republican Sen. John McCain’s brain tumor and the after-midnight timing of the vote were factors in the Arizona lawmaker’s decisive vote against the GOP health care bill. In a radio interview Tuesday with AM560 “Chicago’s Morning Answer,” Johnson answered questions about the collapse of the years-long Republican effort to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s...

Ashley Judd criticized airport employees after she experienced “everyday sexism” on her way through airport security on Saturday.
In a Facebook Live video, the actress explained how an airport security worker called her “sweetheart,” complimented her dress and eventually touched her.

Battling brain cancer, John McCain on Thursday vowed to return to the Senate, leveling fresh criticism at the Trump administration and aiming a good-natured dig at Republican and Democratic colleagues shaken by news of his diagnosis.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan says his wife and writing partner Jeannie Gaffigan is recovering after surgery to remove a serious brain tumor. Jim Gaffigan said on his social media pages Monday that two weeks ago an MRI revealed that Jeannie Gaffigan had a large, life-threatening tumor around her brain stem. He says after nine hours of urgent surgery the tumor was...

An undocumented woman in need of surgery to remove a brain tumor is being held at a North Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.