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 Mr. RFS’s Brain

Visual agnosia in patient RFS
You may remember Oliver Sacks’ 1985 book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” [MORE]

A Brief History of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Abdominal implanted ICD system
Some 800,000 Americans have implanted cardioverter defibrillators that keep their hearts from racing too fast, and about [MORE]

First US Brain Pacemaker Implantation in an A. D. Patient

Deep brain stimulation has already proved its effectiveness with Parkinson’s disease patients, but in a multicenter clinical trial of [MORE]

Hopkins’ Cancer Blood Test Strategy

How to Detect Chromosomal Alterations in Plastma
All cancer patients, no matter the primary site, have abnormal chromosomes released from [MORE]

How Useful is Sequencing for Disease Prediction?

Dr. Bert Vogelestein
A familiar assertion in “personalized medicine” is that DNA sequencing will be able to predict future health [MORE]

Tracking Personalized Biomarkers

Dr. Victor Veulescu in his lab at Johns Hopkins
Residual cancer, after surgery, leaves biomakers in the blood-both protein and [MORE]

Home Monitoring CHF

In Italy, doctors still make house calls; indeed, the Giovanni Battista Hospital in Torino has a Geriatric Home Hospitalization Service [MORE]