http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Meningiomas are a common type of benign brain tumor that sometimes grows dramatically in pregnant women. A new study suggests that this sudden tumor growth likely results from "hemodynamic changes" associated with pregnancy, reports the November issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meningiomas-pregnancy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:09:25 EST news272639359