The Denver News is reporting that a Colorado Springs family has become a part of medical history. All because a small foot was found growing inside the brain of their newborn’s brain.

One of the primary ways of treating brain cancer is surgically removing the tumors. The risk of this sort of procedure is obvious -- it involves cutting away tissue from the brain, potentially severing nerve fibers and causing neurological damage.

Researchers from the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne are developing new technology to create individualised brain maps that will revolutionise diagnosis of disease and enhance the accuracy of brain surgery.

Dr. Allan Friedman who led the team of doctors conducting brain surgery on Senator Edward Kennedy at Duke University Medical Center, called the brain surgery "successful" as he was able to accomplish the "goal" The brain surgery of Senator Kennedy lasted about three hours.

Duke University Medical Center is the place where this morning Senator Ted Kennedy will undergo brain tumor surgery, performed by Dr. Allan Friedman.

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in the brain. The technique minimizes brain exposure and reduces the amount of time a patient must be awake during surgery.

A thin polymer bio-film that seals surgical wounds could make sutures a relic of medical history.

Biomedical engineers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have adapted a three-dimensional ultrasound scanner that might guide minimally invasive brain surgeries and provide better detection of a brain tumor's location.

Brain specialists associated with the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and University Hospital say the ability to incorporate-in real time-two high-tech imaging tools into the operating room can improve the functional abilities of patients who undergo brain surgery.

Surgery is about to change with the introduction of a new surgical robotic system at the University of Calgary/Calgary Health Region. NeuroArm aims to revolutionize neurosurgery and other branches of operative medicine by liberating them from the constraints of the human hand.