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Conjoined twin press conference, Packard Children’s Hospital … … On November 1, 2011, surgeons at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford separated two-year-old conjoined twins Angelina and Angelica Sabuco. Surgeons Gary Hartman, MD, and H. Peter Lorenz, MD, meet the media. Previous publications: Conjoined twins’ separation – a complex feat Previous publications: Two separate girls! […]
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How Embrace infant warmers are saving lives in developing nations … … November 2th, 2011 As previously reported on Scope, a group of Stanford graduate students recently developed an inexpensive, portable incubator to keep premature babies warm and well in low-resource countries. The above video, posted on CNN today, takes a look at how the devices are […]
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Reforming the 2012 Farm Bill: Subsidies, Food Assistance and America’s Health … Reforming the 2012 Farm Bill: Subsidies, Food Assistance and America’s Health … In election year 2012, the U.S. Congress will be considering a new Farm Bill, the government’s primary means of setting food and agriculture policy. The current Farm Bill has been criticized […]
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First Lady Michelle Obama Honors Youth in the Arts … … Today, First Lady Michelle Obama honored organizations from across the country that are committed to providing enriching arts and humanities programs for young people. These organizations, recipients of the President’s Council on Arts and the Humanities Youth Award, work both in and out of schools […]
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Delegates move from words to action on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development … Ten-point action plan outcome document adopted by all delegates … 01 November 2011 Geneva An international conference to reduce armed violence ended in Geneva today with an acknowledgment of the need for tighter controls on the flow of arms, […]
Two separate girls! Packard Children’s surgeons separate conjoined twins … Angelica and Angelina Raw footage of a conjoined twins surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford from November 11, 2011. Wonderful two-year-old girls, the Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, were successfully separated by a multidisciplinary team led by Gary Hartman, MD. … Today’s surgery to separate […]
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Lung cancer can affect anyone, but not everyone is listening … … In preparation for Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November, my colleague Liat Kobza and I recently set up a camera and asked six Stanford physicians to share their thoughts about the disease. We were shocked by what we heard: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer […]
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‘Muffin Test’ Predicts Heart Disease in Healthy, Young People New research presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Vancouver reiterates the old adage that “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” As it turns out, investigators found that almost half of the seemingly healthy-looking study volunteers – trim 18- to 35-year-olds with normal blood pressure […]
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Heart Disease Hides in Seemingly Healthy Youngsters … … Heart Disease Hides in Seemingly Healthy Youngsters New research presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Vancouver reiterates the old adage that “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” As it turns out, investigators found that almost half of the seemingly healthy-looking study volunteers — […]
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Singer and Actress Mandy Moore on the power of innovative global health programs … … Singer and Actress Mandy Moore on the power of innovative global health programs Mandy Moore, singer, actress and global health ambassador for Population Services International (PSI), congratulates USAID on 50 years and stresses the importance of global health programs.
