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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
tubes to treat patients with emphysema and other lung ailments; many prosthetic limbs, joints, and digits; intraocular implants to correct seeing impairments; and breast implants for reconstructive surgery for patients after undergoing... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Former Chairman Landmark Communications, Inc. Frank Batten has delivered hundreds of speeches on the media, philanthropy, and education. The fact that most of these talks were given after his larynx had been removed is a testament to his courage and perseverance. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The recovery that followed offered time for reflection. A few months later, on vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by allowing access to telemedicine and pharmaceuticals by mail and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in the country. In the early 1990s, Krauss saw the potential in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Man on a Mission
Girand Courtesy Jim Girand Jim Girand (MBA ’61), who’s been a high-tech entrepreneur since the 1960s, is also a veteran duathlete and former age-group national champion who hasn’t let a bout with prostate cancer slow him down. Indeed, after successful View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
Why spine surgery? “Spine surgery has an appealing and somewhat unique set of characteristics. There is a great deal we have yet to understand about spine-related disorders, making the practice and research of spine care both challenging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fearless Force for Change
fund research and clini-cal trials. Jen died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December 2004, Linn endured chemotherapy and surgeries during the initial phase of her treatment, a... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Joint (knee and hip) replacements Cancer: Head and neck, breast, prostate – surgery and radiation treatments Heart valve replacements and repairs Neurosurgical procedures – cervical spine, brain Child birth – vaginal and caesarian... View Details
- Portrait Project
Martin Gonzalez
MBA frenzy, I was diagnosed with cancer and underwent two surgeries and eight months of chemotherapy. This made me realize how vulnerable we are, how vain it is to plan too far ahead, and how crucial it is to focus on the really important... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010) Why spine surgery? “Spine surgery has an appealing and somewhat unique set of characteristics. There is a great deal we have yet to understand about spine-related disorders, making the practice and research of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tom Humphrey
cape, back surgery has substituted cartoon Band-Aids, and I can't remember for the life of me the last time I built a sandcastle. Today, I answer to Tom, but more than ever before I aspire to live my life with the zeal of Zac. My promise... View Details
- Portrait Project
Grace Hou
I am a fighter. I might not look like a heavyweight champion, given my petite stature and frame. But my fight is much more than a test of physical strength. When my body was debilitated from open-heart surgery at the age of twelve, I had... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
36-year-old patient without need of immunosuppressive drugs. Performed in Sweden, the procedure was undertaken because a growing, inoperable tumor threatened the patient’s ability to breathe. Experts say the surgery was a precursor to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
volleyball. But soon, I couldn't even ride my bike to class.” It took over three months and emergency abdominal surgery for doctors to diagnose colon cancer. “Ironically, we were told the results of my biopsy the same day we found out... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Laser focus on medical breakthroughs
created new treatments for serious illnesses. In the 1980s Dr. Krauss saw the potential of a new laser eye surgery device. Her investment in Summit Technologies helped it become the first FDA-approved ophthalmic laser for refractive... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nelly-Ange Kontchou
me. These are the bodies I will open up and sew back together this summer. These are the bodies I will fight to preserve through research on innovative models for cardiac surgery in my country. My spirit shifts; it lifts. I am exactly... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients of the foundation’s signature Distinguished Scientist Award. Johnson is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial Health and a professor at the University of... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for... View Details