The community that raised $2 million to create the John M. Tew, Jr., MD, Chair in Neurosurgical Oncology was sincerely thanked last Friday with a memorable evening highlighted by tributes, memories and pledges of stewardship. Attending the event were more than 100 dignitaries, donors and supporters of the Tew Chair, which was awarded to Ronald…
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Richard Curry, MD, was a medical resident when he realized he had a mind for neurology and a heart for people who had cancer. That duality of thought and feeling led him to pursue a unique fellowship, one that wedded neurology and oncology. More recently, Dr. Curry’s hybrid training has led to the establishment of…
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Contact: Cindy Starr (513) 558-3505 cindy.starr@uc.edu CINCINNATI—The 2012 Midwest Regional Brain Tumor Conference, a free educational event for patients, caregivers and family members, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Meridian Conference Center (located inside the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel), 7500 Tylers Place Blvd., in West Chester, Ohio….
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Christopher McPherson, MD, a neurosurgeon with the UC Brain Tumor Center, discusses the new clinical trials for glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in a video segment for ABC News. ABCNews.com Read more »
Contact: Cindy Starr (513) 558-3505 cynthia.starr@uchealth.com Cincinnati – Fueled by the hope of finding better treatments, patients like Kenneth Jacques are helping medical science map the entire genetic sequence of a few types of brain tumors. Those tumors include Grade 3 gliomas, an uncommon type of brain malignancy that struck Mr. Jacques in September 2011….
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Listen to Bill Cunningham discuss brain cancer with Ronald Warnick, MD, Medical Director of the UC Brain Tumor Center, and brain tumor survivor Doc Rodgers. Dr. Warnick talks about five ways to reduce your risk of many types of cancer. Listen to the podcast Publication Name: 700WLW Radio
“There’s no question it alters (brain) activity,” said Dr. Philip Theodosopoulos, a neurosurgeon with the UC Brain Tumor Center and the Mayfield Clinic. “Whether it is carcinogenic or not, I think that is still yet to be answered in a definitive way … I don’t think it should be a cause for panic.” Cell Phones…
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By Charlie Shor
I have had many adventures in my 57 years, and I have accomplished much. But the main message of my story, which I have been given the opportunity to share, is that anything is possible. If you have... 
She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered... 
Courtney is positive that she was wearing her seatbelt. Perhaps that is why her head and neck – thankfully -- were fine. Perhaps that is also why her midsection was so violently impacted, as the force of the rollover twisted... 
Scott has no recollection of the concrete wall. His wife, Sondra, knows only what she was told. And that, she says, is something of a fish story, with the wall growing with every telling … from eight feet, to 10... 
In November of 2004, Zettie Williams confronted what neurologists consider one of the most feared consequences of stroke. When a therapist showed her a photograph of her son, she knew she was looking at her son, but she couldn’t say... 
There was a time in Alisha’s young life when she was angry at her fate and bitter about her life. “I wondered why this had to happen to me,” she said. Her outlook has changed to one of eagerness and... 
Leah is a young woman who sings, dances, and plays the guitar. She is also a survivor of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
It is rare for someone in her mid-teens to have had an AVM, an abnormal tangle of blood vessels... 
She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered... 
The only visible sign of Amber Gray’s ordeal is the long slender scar that runs along her forearm. It is the area where a surgeon carefully removed her radial artery, which was needed to bypass a damaged artery in her... 
What began as a shortcut became, for Laura Brunner, a monumental detour.
Laura, a prominent Cincinnati business executive, was enjoying a mountain hike in Montana with fellow trustees from the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts when the group decided...