Four years into his battle with brain cancer, Connecticut state Rep. Terry Backer remains committed to his appointment at the Capitol.

Researchers found that breast cancer is particularly good at spreading to the brain because it is able to survive on the organ's most abundant neurotransmitter and seem like any other nerve cell.

Online donations will allow a teenage girl to undergo bariatric surgery to treat a form of morbid obesity that arises when a part of the brain that is responsible for metabolic balance is damaged.

Agenus Inc. announced results from a Phase 2 study of its experimental brain cancer vaccine: 90 percent of patients survived six months after surgery.