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 ...

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 ...

Alex Simpson has just made history as she turns 20 years old. When Alex Simpson was born in Nebraska, she was a happy and healthy baby. But when she was 2 months old, the family got a devastating ...

A “miracle” Nebraska woman born without a brain defied the odds as her family marked her 20th birthday — decades after parents were told she’d never make it to 5, reports said. Alex Simpson turned 20 ...

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 ...