Ever wondered what hospital life is really like? On November 18, physicians at MUSC Children’s Hospital took members of the South Carolina legislative delegation on a behind-the-scenes look at one of the top children’s hospitals in the country. Legislators shadowed pediatric specialists to see everything from the technology that helps save the hearts [...]
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The Comprehensive Breast Care team at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, strongly opposes the screening mammography recommendations released by the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF).
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Veteran’s Day is typically a day spent focusing on the sacrifice made by soldiers in past wars. But this year, a 15-year old Columbia, S.C. girl will remember Veteran’s Day as the time when a current solider saved her life, according to a report by Noelle Phillips at the Columbia State newspaper.
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A new neurosurgical procedure may prove helpful for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Bilateral epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation (EpCS) was found generally safe and provided significant improvement of depressive symptoms in a small group of patients, according to lead researcher Ziad Nahas, M.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina. The data are reported in the on-line issue of Biological Psychiatry.
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A neurosurgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina shows how one person can make an impact and bring some of the leading institutions in the world together to empower others.
Tanzania has just three neurosurgeons; a ratio of one per 12.9 million people. The World Health Organization recommends one neurosurgeon for every 100,000 people in order to provide an adequate level of treatment. In the United States there are an estimated 4,000 practicing neurosurgeons.
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Michael Cheeks spent 15 years on dialysis waiting for a kidney. A gift from a stranger would change his life forever.
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When Michael Cheeks graduated from high school in 1993, he had a bright future ahead of him. Â He earned a scholarship to play football in North Carolina, but shortly after graduation, he was feeling tired [...]
Women with risk factors for heart disease are among several new groups of patients who will benefit from new cardiac imaging technology now available at the Medical University of South Carolina.
The Flash Dual Source CT scanner, developed by Siemens, represents a significant advance in heart imaging because it can scan the entire chest area in [...]
As a lieutenant in the Iraqi Police force, Hamad risks his life everyday alongside U.S. Marines clearing land mines and protecting the borders from terrorists. Yet, there was little he could do to save his little boy from a life-threatening heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, a condition which is a complex of four heart [...]
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