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U.S. News & World Report ranks Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center among the nation's best in 8 categories.
Brenner Children's Hospital has a new Fun Center mobile entertainment unit, a gift of Wyndham Worldwide in collaboration with the Starlight Children's Foundation, to benefit sick children at the hospital. Accepting the gift was Jon Abramson, MD, chief of pediatrics at Brenner.
Researchers have created a "designer protein" that can not only target a cancer cell, but can also invade that cell and attack its DNA. Lead researcher Waldemar Debinski, MD, PhD, says his findings open a new door in cancer research.
A good night’s sleep is crucial to daily function, but more than 40 million Americans live with an undiagnosed or untreated sleep disorder in the United States. At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, the sleep-challenged can find help at the Sleep Center, now conveniently located at the Hawthorne Inn to provide patients with the highest quality of care in a comfortable and relaxing environment.
For nearly 40 years renowned scientist and researcher James L. Oschman, Ph.D., has studied “moving energy,” and its possible applications to traditional modern medicine. The Wake Forest Baptist Center for Integrative Medicine, in tandem with the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is pleased to present Oschman in the next installment of the Natural Triad-Wake Forest Integrative Medicine Seminar Series. His address will be titled, “The Energy Crisis in Medicine.”
Wake Forest University’s Elder Law Clinic and Internal Medicine Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Section have together joined the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP), a national network of partnership sites that are dedicated to improving the health and well-being of vulnerable populations, including the elderly.
At least a quarter of patients who have suffered a stroke stop taking one or more of their prescribed stroke prevention medications within the first three months after being hospitalized – when the chance of having another stroke is highest – according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.
If you’re a faithful follower of the World Cup games, have you ever wondered if your favorite player is going overboard with an injury or outright faking one? A sports medicine physician and researcher at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center asked that same question to determine if injury embellishments are occurring to give players a needed rest or because the winning team is trying to run out the clock.
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) may soon help to spare some women with breast cancer from having to undergo invasive and toxic treatments for their disease.
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