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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut Children's Medical Center Welcomes Four New Physicians
HartfordConnecticut Children's Medical Center is pleased to announce the recent appointment of four new physicians to its Divisions of Otolaryngology, Endocrinology and Emergency Medicine. Valerie Cote, MD, FRCSC, has joined the Division of Otolaryngology at...Tags: Connecticut Children's Medical Center, University of Connecticut, Healthcare Provider, Yale University, Advanced Life Support
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Do athletes make better doctors?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may not be the first quality that most programs evaluate in their applicants, but a new study suggests athletic achievement could be the best indicator of how well a doctor-in-training will do as a resident. When...Tags: School Examinations, Colleges and Universities, Medical Specialization, Students, Medical Research
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Hopkins to begin performing face transplants
Johns Hopkins doctors have received approval from the university’s institutional review board to begin doing face transplant surgeries, becoming the second hospital in Baltimore to offer the complex procedure. There have been only 22 such...
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Hopkins provost to become dean of Stanford medical school
The No. 2 academic official at Johns Hopkins University is leaving to become dean of Stanford University's School of Medicine.
Lloyd B. Minor, who has served as Hopkins provost for three years, will leave the university at the end of August. Minor said...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities, Education, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University
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Blacks with throat cancer get harsher therapy
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Blacks in the U.S. with throat cancer are more likely than whites to have surgery that leaves them unable to speak than to get gentler voice-preserving treatments, a new study finds. Previous research has found a similar...Tags: Throat Cancer, Medical Specialization, Breast Cancer, Cancer, University of California, Davis
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Spider Found Living in Woman's Ear Canal
KTLA NewsDoctor's made a nightmarish discovery in the ear of a woman complaining of an itchy sensation. To the surprise, and no doubt, horror of all, doctor found that a spider had crawled inside the woman's ear canal and lived there for five days. The woman,...Tags: China
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Spider Lives Inside Woman's Ear Canal for Five Days
KTLA NewsDoctors made a nightmarish discovery in the ear of a woman complaining of an itchy sensation. To the surprise, and no doubt, horror of all, doctor found that a spider had crawled inside the woman's ear canal and lived there for five days. The woman,...Tags: China
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Music makes your brain function in unique ways
Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as "Do Re Mi." Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental systems in our brains that are...Tags: Music, Michael Jackson, Johns Hopkins University, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Dr Adam Schaffner
Adam D. Schaffner, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a New York City plastic surgeon who specializes in aesthetic plastic surgery of the face, breast and body. Dr. Schaffner is unique in that he is also board certified and fellowship-trained in facial plastic surgery...
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Good plastic surgery, bad plastic surgery
Special to the Los Angeles TimesLike it or not, plastic surgery is here to stay. Sure, some people will tout the virtues of self-acceptance and aging gracefully and lament that the rise of cosmetic procedures (including fillers, Botox and the like) signifies the swift decline of...Tags: Heidi Montag, Celebrities, Ophthalmology, Breast Augmentation, Hospitals and Clinics
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Voice, throat problems common after anesthesia
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A fresh look at past research suggests voice and throat problems are common in patients who've had a breathing tube placed during general anesthesia. Researchers pooled a dozen studies that looked at complications following...Tags: Human Body, Medical Specialization, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Procedural Sedation, General Practitioners
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Dr. Duane Anthony Sewell, head and neck surgeon
Dr. Duane Anthony Sewell, a highly regarded head and neck surgeon and researcher who was also a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Nov. 26 of gastric cancer at his Mount Washington home.
Dr. Sewell was 44.
"I...Tags: Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Healthcare Provider, Research, General Practitioners
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