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Stories about: hydrocephalus

The Alien Head Condition It may sound less familiar to you than the Down syndrome, but it is a birth defect much more common than the latter. One in 500 newborn children experience hydrocephalus ("water in the head" in Old Greek), more commonly known as "water in the brain". Over 700,000 children and adults in the US suffer from this condit... 3 October 2007 15:41 GMT