Brain Aneurysms: Rare but Usually Deadly If They Burst

Experts say most brain aneurysms happen in people born with an abnormality in an artery wall. A weakened area expands outward and fills with blood.
26 August 2008

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

We often hear the term brain aneurysm. Joe Biden had two of them twenty years ago. Doctors saved his life. Now the sixty-five year old senator from Delaware has just been named the vice presidential choice of Democrat Barack Obama.