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Every year, doctors diagnose millions of people with tumors, blood clots and other masses in their brains. In each case, doctors must weigh the benefits of surgery against possible long-term neurological damage.
“Imagine having to decide between removing someone’s tumor to give them more time to live, but in the process of that they lose their ability to speak,” says Prof. Moshe Shoham, a professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a serial entrepreneur. “Which is really the better choice?”
To reduce dilemmas like this and shorten recovery times, Shoham’s latest startup, Tamar Robotics, is developing a surgical robot that aims to revolutionize brain surgery, finally giving doctors a safer, minimally invasive tool to remove tumors and blood clots and treat other life-threatening brain conditions that now require major surgery. “We hope we will be able to let the people suffering from these conditions get back to their lives,” Shoham s
Editorial: Immigrants still believe in the American Dream
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Jacksonville is an interesting case study on the subject of undocumented immigrants.
One of our residents, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, came to the United States from Mexico as an undocumented immigrant in 1987 to pick crops in California. He managed to work his way into Harvard Medical School.
Now, better known as Dr. Q, he is head of the neurologic surgery department at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville. He has shared his story in his autobiography, Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon.
Then there’s Felipe Estevéz, who came to the U.S. in 1961 as an unaccompanied minor, one of the thousands of Pedro Pan children smuggled out of Cuba. He is now the bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine.
NNLM Reading Club Presents … Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Please join us for a FREE virtual discussion featuring Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa who will discuss his journey from being a migrant farmworker to a world-renowned neurosurgeon and researcher. The discussion, on 1/14, will be moderated by Edgar Gil Rico of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.
All of Us Research Program Wisconsin consortium: Gundersen Health System; Marshfield Clinic; and the Medical College of Wisconsin, as well as a range of other outstanding national organizations.
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Not passing version of DREAM Act flushes $100 billion down the toilet PERSPECTIVE Not getting a version of the DREAM Act in place means we are not just wasting money on the education of 750,000 people but are depriving the nation of skilled and educated individuals such as nurses.
If the President signed legislation passed by Congress to blatantly waste in excess of $100 billion, reject an easy and painless way to extend the solvency of Social Security, and gift nations in a position to undermine the American economy the resources to do so the howling on the Left and the Right would pierce your eardrums.
know. it s not just a street or boulevard, but a place whereitsh your community to make every day better. nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to eronomic eter a w t aneime. a time. nationwide is on your side. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: alfredo quinones- hinojosa is a renowned neurosurgeon and director of the pituitary tumor center at johns hopkins. his remarkable path from mexico to the united states is the subject of a new memoir, becoming dr. q: my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon. an honor to have you on this program. i just want to touch this hand. i am honored to be here with you. tavis: it is my delight. let me jump into it. i was thinking that if herman cain had his way, you would have bee