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Hopkins surgeon performs 2,000th Whipple
Early Friday in a small, brightly lit operating room in Johns Hopkins Hospital, a half-dozen doctors and nurses huddled over the gut of a cancer patient, quietly passing metal instruments and surgical sutures.
After more than four hours of cutting and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, College Sports, Chemotherapy, Carrollton, Harvard University
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Steelers' Clark benched by sickle cell
The last time Pittsburgh Steelers leading tackler Ryan Clark played a game in Denver, he ended up in a hospital having his spleen and gallbladder removed.
Since then Clark, who suffers from the sickle cell trait, hasn't played when the team travels to...Tags: Ryan Clark, Sickle-cell Disease, National Football League
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Doctors aim to stop pancreatic cancer before it forms
Seeing a chance to stop one of the most deadly kinds of cancer before it forms, doctors at Johns Hopkins and at other hospitals around the nation are focusing on the common pancreatic cyst.
Up to 20 percent of pancreatic cancer begins as one of these...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Fort Lauderdale, Advil (drug), Skin, Pancreatic Cancer
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From Sun Magazine: Grayson Gilbert's divine strength
May 19, 2011
The boy approached the marble statue, gazing up — miles up, as he remembers it now — into the face of the benevolent figure it depicted.
It was May 8, 1996, and Grayson Gilbert, 6, had a lot on his mind.
A few months earlier,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Amusement and Theme Parks, Mother's Day, College Sports, Towson University
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'Bachelor Pad' recap: Let them eat pie!
Reality CheckBucky's Bachelor Pad report starts here! Take it away, Bucky!Here we go with the second week of Bachelor Pad, which commenter Dahlink described last week as, “like high school”. Oh, how correct she was, although I’m getting ahead of...Tags: Vomiting, ABC (tv network), Hair and Nails, Schools, High Schools
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A cut too small to see
Baltimore Sun reporterAfter less than 30 minutes of surgery, Dr. Gina Massoglia removed Caren Eckwerth's gallbladder by squeezing it out through a tiny incision in her belly button. A colleague followed up with three small stitches in the navel, covering the wound with a Band-...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Hospitals and Clinics, Annapolis, University of Maryland, College Park
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China dinner delicacies succumb to SARS scare
Sun Foreign StaffGUANGZHOU, China - Deng Deliu couldn't believe it when the government came for his pheasants. It had been a lazy morning at the animal markets, with only a few shoppers perusing the snakes, turtles, rabbits, cats, dogs, badgers, ducks, geese, frogs,...Tags: Natural Resources, Hong Kong, Hospitals and Clinics, Farms, Seizures
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Woman organized 5K run/walk to honor mother and fight pancreatic cancer
HealthTo honor two women who lost lives to pancreatic cancer and raise funds for research to find a cure, Jenn LeConte of Hanover Township, Northampton County, started J's Run 5K Run & Fitness Walk, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. May 12 at Asa Packer... -
Runner creates J's Run to honor her mother and fight pancreatic cancer
"We used to call her Mrs. Talbots," says Jenn LoConte of her mother, Joan Stein. The vibrant woman in her 70s loved shopping at Talbots, doting over her grandchildren and attending meetings of the Bethlehem Garden Club.
Three years ago, she suffered an...Tags: Running, Asa Packer, Talbots Incorporated, Gallbladder Disease, Chemotherapy
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Lloyd Waters: A parable of the gallbladder
Did you ever wonder why the gallbladder was part of our creation? Or why it often becomes a traitor to our body? Was it made as a special hiding place for marbles, or did those gallstones intend to take the place of your diamonds and rubies? Whatever...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Gallbladder Disease, Superman (fictional character), Human Body
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4 incisions or 1? FDA approves less invasive robotic procedure
CW33 News46 year old Wayne Hardin is feeling almost like his old self--a couple of weeks ago he was diagnosed with gallstones and was told it would be a good idea to have his gallbladder removed. He became the first in Dallas-Fort Worth to have a choice--the...Tags: Gallbladder Disease, Human Body
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Wife's decision to donate kidney to husband also saves her life
One local husband and wife are more than just a couple, they are life savers. Michael and Elaine Alhand have been married for more than 40 years. Michael, a diabetic, suffered kidney failure. In 2003, he was placed on dialysis. One year later, he got...
Tags: Dialysis, Kidney, Renal Failure, Kidney Disease, Cancer
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