Doctors never expected Alex Simpson to survive long after birth. Diagnosed with hydranencephaly — a rare condition in which most of the brain’s hemispheres are missing and replaced with fluid — she ...

When Alex Simpson came into the world, doctors didn’t believe she would live more than a few years. Born with hydranencephaly, a rare condition where most of the brain’s hemispheres are missing and ...

A Nebraska woman born without a brain just celebrated her 20th birthday — and is defying the odds. Alex Simpson of Omaha was born with a rare condition known as hydranencephaly, according to her ...

Nobody expected Alex Simpson to live past her fourth or fifth birthday. But against all odds, the young Nebraska woman who was born without most of her brain celebrated her 20th birthday in the ...