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Dr. Paul H. Crandall dies at 89; invented techniques for diagnosing, treating epilepsy
Dr. Paul H. Crandall, a UCLA neurosurgeon who pioneered now widely used techniques for diagnosing the source of epileptic seizures in the brain and removing the offending cells, died March 15 from complications of pneumonia at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical...Tags: Electroencephalography, U.S. Army, Colleges and Universities, Space Programs, NASA
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Impaled By Stick, Uninsured Man's Ordeal At Heart Of Health Care Debate
The Hartford CourantIt was a sunny Saturday afternoon, March 24, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Central California as Mike Turner and a friend rode their mountain bikes down a rocky, narrow trail alongside a creek embankment. The 28-year-old Turner, who grew up in...Tags: Science, Health Care Reform (2009), Aetna Inc., Injuries and Wounds, National Parks
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Kevin's Garden
WGN NewsThe late Maggie Daley transformed this city into a garden. And now a place of healing and new life for sick children and their families. Lurie Children's Hospital is set to open in June. Today we got to open our eyes to Kevin's garden -- a space dedicated...Tags: Health, Maggie Daley, Local Government, Richard M. Daley, Hospitals and Clinics
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Via Christi Hospital among nation's Top 5 percent for Emergency Medicine
Via Christi Health’s hospitals on St. Francis and Harry are among the Top 5 percent in the nation
for Emergency Medicine, according to a report released today by HealthGrades.
Additionally, this is the third year in a row that the two Via...Tags: Stroke, Health, Heart Attack, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics
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Kirk alert, answering questions after stroke
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is alert, answering questions and following commands days after a weekend stroke that led doctors to remove part of his skull to relieve pressure caused by brain swelling, his neurosurgeon Richard Fessler said Tuesday.
"He's doing...Tags: Skull, Mark Kirk, Health, Swelling, Hospitals and Clinics
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Via Christi hospitals on St. Francis and Harry among nation's best
For the sixth year in a row, Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis and Via Christi Hospital on Harry have recieved HealthGrades' Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence award. This award places them in the top 5% in the nation for clinical...Tags: Health, Randy Peterson, Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics
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Sanjay Gupta explores concussions, high-school football in CNN special, “Big Hits, Broken Dreams”
Channel Guide MagazineOf all the questions people throw Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s way — and there are many for the neurosurgeon who is also CNN’s chief medical correspondent — among the most common deal with high-school football and concussions. Is the game... -
Doctor: Sen. Kirk ‘progressing as expected’ after stroke
TribLocal - Wheaton » NewsU.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is “progressing as expected” after his stroke and surgery, but he remains in serious condition, the neurosurgeon who operated on him …... -
Northwestern Hosts Workshops to Offer Parkinson’s Patients and Caregivers Information and Support
TribLocal - EvanstonNorthwestern’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center will host two workshops this spring to help those impacted by Parkinson’s better understand the disease and its …... -
High blood pressure linked to mental decline too
Doctors long have cautioned patients about the consequences of uncontrolled high blood pressure, including heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure.
Now they can add cognitive decline to that list, after researchers discovered that patients with high...Tags: Stroke, Colleges and Universities, Education, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Research
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Patt Morrison Asks: The brain, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
![Here's a Hollywood pitch for you: Leading U.S. neurosurgeon started life as a struggling Mexican boy who made it from illegal-immigrant California farmworker to Harvard Med. Not buying it? You should. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa was that kid and is that man -- associate prof, surgeon and head of the brain tumor stem cell lab at Johns Hopkins. His work puts him, passionately, on the cutting-edge of brain cancer research, and his life wedges him, reluctantly, into the immigration quarrel. He tells his story -- his traumas and triumphs, and his patients' -- in an autobiography, "Becoming Dr. Q," and here, now.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-09/65140152-30171726.jpg "Here's a Hollywood pitch for you: Leading U.S. neurosurgeon started life as a struggling Mexican boy who made it from illegal-immigrant California farmworker to Harvard Med. Not buying it? You should. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa was that kid and is that man -- associate prof, surgeon and head of the brain tumor stem cell lab at Johns Hopkins. His work puts him, passionately, on the cutting-edge of brain cancer research, and his life wedges him, reluctantly, into the immigration quarrel. He tells his story -- his traumas and triumphs, and his patients' -- in an autobiography, "Becoming Dr. Q,\" and here, now.")
Here's a Hollywood pitch for you: Leading U.S. neurosurgeon started life as a struggling Mexican boy who made it from illegal-immigrant California farmworker to Harvard Med. Not buying it? You should. Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa was that kid and is that...Tags: Arts and Culture, Brain, Standards, File Sharing, Human Body
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Survivor Story: Quadriplegic learns to walk again
![<span style="font-size: small;">Part attitude and part miracle of modern medicine: Paul Sullivan man was told by doctors that he would never walk again. This week he walked into Memorial hospital to share his story with us. He is a walking testament to sheer determination and modern medicine.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/23456481136580-14065951.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">Part attitude and part miracle of modern medicine: Paul Sullivan man was told by doctors that he would never walk again. This week he walked into Memorial hospital to share his story with us. He is a walking testament to sheer determination and modern medicine.</span>")
Part attitude and part miracle of modern medicine: Paul Sullivan man was told by doctors that he would never walk again. This week he walked into Memorial hospital to share his story with us. He is a walking testament to sheer determination and modern...Tags: Health, Motorcycling, Surgery, Climbing, Hospitals and Clinics
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