Sentences with phrase «neurosurgeon for»

We rushed him to the nearest neurosurgeon for surgery.

Unfortunately, one day when we were walking Bruce Lee, he completely lost the use of his back legs and we had to RUSH him to the Neurosurgeon for corrective surgery.

Not exact matches

Gates says he was inspired by Kalanithi's thirst for knowledge, his career and his courage, and that he found the details of the neurosurgeon's last days — spent with his wife Lucy and their daughter Cady — heartbreaking.

It doesn't take a neurosurgeon to know that people prefer a sure investment return to an uncertain one — we want to get paid for taking on any extra risk.

Former GOP presidential hopeful and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson has recently landed a new political role — a Trump spokesperson — and has revealed to The Washington Post who the Republican candidate's top five choices for VP are, and somewhat awkwardly: He's not one of them.

He was in University Hospital as neurosurgeons groped for synonyms for miraculous.

Laughing, I told him that he wouldn't remember this, but he used to respond a little to us nurses but didn't for the neurosurgeon.

«Here at Michigan, Bennie Oosterbaan [Michigan's famous All - America end and former coach] and I have been assisting Dr. Richard Schneider, a great neurosurgeon, by getting films together for his study of football fatalities.

Neurosurgeon and concussion specialist Neilank Jha said the NHL and other professional sports leagues have been mismanaging the problem for years.

Jesse Winer, MD is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Floating Hospital for Children in downtown Boston, MA.

During this procedure, our neurosurgeons use a small camera and make a tiny hole in the ventricle to create a new path for the spinal fluid to flow.

Dr. Jim Maxwell, a Republican neurosurgeon, announced in January that he would run against Louise Slaughter, saying Washington was broken and it was time for someone who wasn't a career politician to fix it.

Dr. Jim Maxwell, a Republican neurosurgeon, announced his candidacy for the Congressional seat back in January.

Previously, local neurosurgeon Dr. James Maxwell said he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for that seat.

For 17 of her 52 years she has been a pediatric neurosurgeon, holding in steady hands sharp steel and the fate of children's brains.

He tendered as an exhibit, a letter from one Dr. Adrian T. H. Kasey, a Neurosurgeon at Wellington Hospital in London, which he said emphasized the need for Metuh to be treated urgently.

«The passion and rational that I have for all the years of being a neurosurgeon, of trying to help people - listening and helping is the same thing I'm gonna do when I get into Congress,» Maxwell said in an interview with 13WHAM News Monday.

Retired neurosurgeon and erstwhile presidential candidate Ben Carson endorsed his former rival for the GOP nod, Donald Trump, saying the two had «buried the hatchet.»

A Rochester neurosurgeon says he's seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in the 25th district.

Matthew Glosek, 21, of Buffalo hopes to work as a neurosurgeon, so next year he will begin studies for his master's degree in anatomical sciences.

Vote for the retired neurosurgeon to serve as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development heads to the full Senate

A Park Avenue neurosurgeon was arrested for sexually assaulting a patient in his exam room, authorities said.

Advances in radiology have made it possible for specially trained neurosurgeons, called endovascular neurosurgeons, to make repairs from within blood vessels using catheters and guide wires.

Monica Wehby is the Senate candidate Republicans have been waiting for: a camera - ready pediatric neurosurgeon, mother of four, in a party that desperately needs to elect more women.

Developed by internationally renowned neurosurgeons, this unique book is perfect for medical students, biology fans, and anybody interested in the human body.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

But there is a huge added benefit: The seizure patients who volunteer for Schalk's experiments prior to surgery have allowed him and his collaborator, neurosurgeon Eric C. Leuthardt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to collect what they claim are among the most detailed pictures ever recorded of what happens in the brain when we imagine speaking words aloud.

The project was funded by the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM) at UC San Diego and brought together experts from multiple fields, including neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, electrical engineers, materials scientists and experts in systems integration.

For Liu, the USC neurosurgeon wielding the scalpel, the operation itself was the culmination of decades of research by scientists around the world.

But the neurosurgeon who fused Boesen's neck bones to stabilize his spine offered a ray of hope: Boesen might qualify for an experimental treatment that uses stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

Neurosurgeons live for the «great saves.»

Neurosurgeon Dr. Ammar H. Hawasli and colleagues of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, give their perspective on recent guidelines suggesting limited use of CT scans and other neuroimaging tests for patients with headache.

Any neurosurgeon relishes the opportunity for a great save — a total cure or a dramatic neurological reversal.

«Neurosurgeon uses depth electrodes for speech mapping.»

These authors found the device easy to use, efficient, cost effective, and a great learning tool for less experienced neurosurgeons.

And yet these operations — first performed in the U.S. in 1936 by psychiatrist and neurologist Walter Jackson Freeman and neurosurgeon James Winston Watts — continued for more than 40 years.

McKee and Stern were co-founders of the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, along with neurosurgeon Robert Cantu, MD, and Christopher Nowinski, Executive Director of Sports Legacy Institute.

With a neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, he's also creating brain implants for reading or controlling neural activity — helpful for diagnosing and treating people with epilepsy, or eventually for building those sci - fi brain - computer interfaces.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine neurologist Giulio Pasinetti is in the early stages of testing DBS for Alzheimer's disease, and neurosurgeon Bomin Sun of the Center of Functional Neurosurgery at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is harnessing it to treat anorexia.

For years, deep - brain stimulation — in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and inserts an electrode far into a patient's brain tissue — was considered a radical treatment, reserved for the most severe cases of Parkinson's diseaFor years, deep - brain stimulation — in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and inserts an electrode far into a patient's brain tissue — was considered a radical treatment, reserved for the most severe cases of Parkinson's diseafor the most severe cases of Parkinson's disease.

The device is thought to modulate electrical activity in the circuitry of the dysfunctional brain, explains Oxford University neurosurgeon Tipu Aziz, who is exploring DBS as a treatment for cluster headaches.

If the diagnostics come up positive for blast - related brain trauma, the neurosurgeon takes action based on observable signs of trauma.

The firing of a single neuron is believed to be the basic unit of brain computation, and these studies are accomplished through the collaboration of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons, with the consent and participation of patients who undergo deep brain electrode placement for diagnostic or treatment procedures.

Koch and Itzhak Fried, who is both a neuroscientist and a practicing neurosurgeon at UCLA Medical School, recently uncovered evidence for a coding scheme long ago discarded as implausible.

Equipped with some of the best technologies for neuroimaging and intervention, it provides quality clinical services for patients and certified advanced training for the region?s newly qualified neurosurgeons.

«We're approaching half of what, for example, I could probably type on a cell phone,» says neurosurgeon and co-senior author, Jaimie Henderson of Stanford University.

We also determined that by using a standardized medical protocol — in other words, treating every patient in the exact same way and preparing for each issue we may encounter — we were able to reduce patient mortality by about 50 percent,» says Douglas Chyatte, M.D., a study author and neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic Health System.

He is working closely with a team of physicians at the UNM Cancer Center to conduct these trials: M. Omar Chohan, MD, a neurosurgeon who specializes in surgery for tumors of the brain and spinal cord; Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist who is an expert in the radiation therapy of brain tumors; and Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, a newly recruited medical oncologist to the UNM Cancer Center who is an expert in cancers of the lung, brain and spinal cord, and early phase clinical trials.

Working with Seattle, Washington — area neurosurgeons, the Allen Institute acquired healthy cells from the cortex — the outermost layer of the brain that coordinates perception, memory, thoughts, and consciousness — from patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy or brain tumors.

And the scientist and neurosurgeon who would work with him to develop the upcoming clinical trials for Parkinson's disease.