Contact: Amanda Harper 513-558-4657 amanda.harper@uc.edu Cincinnati—Researchers are currently seeking patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) for two novel cancer vaccine clinical trials. This fast-growing form of brain tumor occurs in the central nervous system and accounts for 60 percent of the 17,000 new primary brain tumors diagnosed annually in the United States. “Despite advances in surgical…
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Radiation oncologists William Barrett, MD, and John Breneman, MD, write in The Pulse-Journal that patients with tumors and other life-threatening conditions are benefiting from the steady evolution of radiosurgery and radiotherapy. These treatments are often described as “incisionless surgery” or “surgery without the knife” and are among the most valuable tools in health care today….
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There was a sliver of a chance, maybe, and most likely the emergency room doctor thought there was no chance at all. Christine had arrived at the community hospital comatose, brought by her parents, who had come home after working out to find her semi-conscious on the floor. A CT scan revealed severe bleeding in…
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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...