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How Remote Work and Social Media Are Creating a Plastic Surgery Boom
Experts point to a phenomenon called the “Zoom effect” or the “Zoom Boom”
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Cook Children's Names Dr. Eric Hubli as First ‘Surgeon-in-Chief'
Cook Children’s Health Care System has announced that the first person to hold the title of “Surgeon-in-Chief” will be Eric Hubli, M.D., FACS, FAAP.
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Dallas Heart Surgeon Follows His Own Heart and Joins Navy
A Dallas heart surgeon has launched a unique ‘next chapter’ in his life. He hopes it inspires others to live a life of service. Noelle Walker reports.
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Dallas Heart Surgeon Follows His Heart to Military Service
A Dallas heart surgeon has launched a unique ‘next chapter’ in his life. He hopes it inspires others to live a life of service. Noelle Walker reports.
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Virtual Reality Gives Sick Babies Their Best Chance
Advancements in medical technology is giving critically sick patients their best chance of getting well. That’s especially true for babies born with congenital heart defects, which often require complex surgeries when babies are just days old.
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DISD Board Member Shares Daughter's Heart Transplant Journey
Miguel Solis spoke at Children’s Health’s ‘What’s Up, Doc’ breakfast Thursday morning, sharing his baby daughter’s emotional heart transplant journey.
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3D Printing Helps Surgeons Fix Scoliosis
What if your surgeon could practice your procedure before going into the operating room? An innovation team in Phoenix, Ariz., is 3D printing the spines of patients who have severe scoliosis so there are no surprises on operation day.
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3D Printing Helps Surgeons Fix Scoliosis
What if your surgeon could practice your procedure before going into the operating room? An innovation team in Phoenix, Ariz., is 3D printing the spines of patients who have severe scoliosis so there are no surprises on operation day.
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Teen Activists Score Mental Health Days for Oregon Students
Oregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S. But don’t call it coddling. The students behind the measure say it’s meant to...
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New Standards Aim to Improve Surgery for the Oldest Patients
The 92-year-old had a painful tumor on his tongue, and major surgery was his best chance. Doctors called a timeout when he said he lived alone, in a rural farmhouse, and wanted to keep doing so. “It was ultimately not clear we could get him back there” after such a big operation, said Dr. Tom Robinson, chief of surgery at...
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Local Surgeon, Soccer Player, Travels to World Cup
As the United States Women’s Soccer Team continues to advance in the World Cup, a local surgeon plans to also travel to France to continue chasing her soccer dreams.
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Local Surgeon, Soccer Player, Travels to World Cup
As the United States Women’s Soccer Team continues to advance in the World Cup, a local surgeon plans to also travel to France to continue chasing her soccer dreams.
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Doctor Invents Surgery to Cure Bunions
Bunions. No one likes to talk about them but more people have them than you think. Doctors perform about half a million surgeries every year. But now one Florida doctor has invented a surgery to fix bunions.
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Doctor Invents Surgery to Cure Bunions
Bunions. No one likes to talk about them but more people have them than you think. Doctors perform about half a million surgeries every year. But now one Florida doctor has invented a surgery to fix bunions.
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Former President Jimmy Carter Released From Hospital, Plans to Teach Sunday School This Weekend
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was released from a Georgia hospital Thursday and will continue to recuperate at home, according to the Carter Center. Carter underwent hip replacement surgery after breaking his hip Monday when he fell while leaving his home in Plains to go turkey hunting. Carter was released from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia, Thursday morning,...
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Former President Jimmy Carter Has Surgery for Broken Hip
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke his hip Monday at his south Georgia home when he fell while leaving to go turkey hunting, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said. Carter was treated in Americus, Georgia, near his home in Plains, and was recovering comfortably after successful surgery, spokeswoman, Deanna Congileo, said in a statement.
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North Texas Hospital Hit by ‘So Many Elevators Down' in Year Before a Nurse Was Crushed, Critically Injured
Internal emails between JPS and the company hired to maintain its elevators, thyssenkrupp, show that Elevator 29 was just one of many with lingering problems, long before a nurse was hurt on Jan. 20.
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Parents of Surgeon Who Died in Elevator Incident Want Industry Changes
The accident that severely injured nurse Carren Stratford earlier this year brought back tragic memories for Dallas surgeon Hisashi Nikaidoh and his wife Lynn, who lost their son to a similar elevator accident in 2003. Now they want the industry to do more to ensure the public’s safety when using an elevator.
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North Texas Hospital Hit by ‘So Many Elevators Down' in Year Before a Nurse Was Crushed, Critically Injured
Internal emails between JPS and the company hired to maintain its elevators, thyssenkrupp, show that Elevator 29 was just one of many with lingering problems, long before a nurse was hurt on Jan. 20.