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Since 1968, UAB Medicine has performed more than 14,000 life-saving organ transplants.

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A numbing medicine largely abandoned decades ago for pain control during surgery could be making a comeback as an effective spinal anesthetic for today’s modern-day knee replacement.

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Ultrasound technology for the brain could mean real-time images during surgery, a better idea of which areas get stimulated by certain feelings or actions and the ability to get vital information without penetrating the skull.

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At 4 months old, Raegen was diagnosed with congenital nephrotic syndrome.Early on in Raegen Allard’s life, her mother, Francisca Allard, noticed something wasn’t quite right with her beautiful daughter. Raegen would seem upset after she ate and her stomach was enlarged. She also had a bruise around her belly button, which worried Allard further.

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A review of nearly 500 cases of infants with severe congenital hyperinsulinism who underwent partial or near-total removal of their pancreas for persistent hypoglycemia at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) showed that surgeons can cure virtually all patients with the focal, or localized, form of the rare genetic disease.

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A new Johns Hopkins Medicine analysis of national trauma data shows that trauma patients were four times more likely to die from gunshot wounds and nearly nine times more likely to die from stab wounds before getting to a trauma center in 2014, compared with rates in 2007.

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The new 122,000-square-foot, three-story Neurosciences Center provides a highly collaborative environment for clinical care, research and academic services related to neurological disorders and diseases.

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Vivex Biomedical, Inc. (Vivex) is pleased to announce the publication of a peer-reviewed study examining the use of its cellular bone matrix product, VIA Graft, for spinal fusion surgery. The peer-reviewed study was published in the January edition of the International Journal for Spine International Journal for Spine Surgery, and demonstrates exceptional clinical results.

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Researchers at the National Eye Institute have discovered cellular mechanisms that help the 13-lined ground squirrel survive hibernation. Their findings could be a step toward extending storage of human donor tissues awaiting transplantation and protecting traumatic brain injury patients who undergo induced hypothermia. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings were published in the May 3 issue of Cell.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center is thrilled to announce the addition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System, providing its surgeons with unparalleled precision, dexterity and control that allows for a minimally invasive surgical approach for many complex surgical procedures. Already home to the da Vinci Si™, the addition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System adds to the already robust robotic surgery program at Riverview Medical Center, where surgeons perform a multitude of minimally invasive surgeries for complex diseases and conditions in gynecology, urology, thoracic, cardiac, and general surgery.

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Penn Medicine performed the first robot-assisted spinal surgery in a three-part, two-day procedure. The robotic arms made it possible for the multidisciplinary team at Penn to successfully remove a rare tumor from the patient's neck, where the skull meets the spine.

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Baylor Scott & White Health and Select Medical today announced an expansion of their joint venture into the Austin area with the acquisition of a 36-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Lakeway, Texas, that will be operated under the name Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation – Lakeway. The transaction is expected to close by July 1, 2018.

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A presentation at the 2018 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting

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A presentation at the 2018 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting

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A presentation at the 2018 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting

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A presentation at the 2018 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting

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Scientists obtain the first exclusive measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering of electrons off helium-4, vital to obtaining an unambiguous 3-D view of quarks and gluons within nuclei.

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Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have begun to unravel how serotonin acts, based on data collected in a first-of-its-kind experiment that utilized electrochemical probes implanted into the brain of awake human beings.

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A presentation at the 2018 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting

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The increase in opioid deaths in the last 20 years led a medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School and colleagues to look at excessive opioids prescribed to treat acute surgical pain following various procedures. Alyssa A. Mazurek presented a study during the American Association for Thoracic Surgery’s 98th Annual Meeting that assessed patterns of opioid prescribing for open and laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair (HHR) and found that patients used far fewer opioids than were actually prescribed.