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The Osteopathic Heritage Foundations’ $105 million award to Ohio University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine represents the largest private donation ever given to a college or university in Ohio. This gift will be used to address some of the most pressing health care issues across the state and the nation – the impending shortage of primary care physicians and the diabetes epidemic.
An Ohio State surgeon comments on a recent surgical first: removing a patient’s gallbladder entirely through her birth canal. The incisionless, virtually painless technique is being studied to compare laparoscopic and transvaginal surgery.
Living in an environment rich with physical, mental and social stimulation – a setting that causes mild stress – might by itself curb cancer growth, according to a new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. The animal study is featured in the July 9 issue of the journal Cell.
Doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital have noticed a trend in injuries that occur in children during the summer months. See what experts say can help prevent these common summer injuries.
Ohio State University’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is one of the first facilities in the country to implant a next generation defibrillator in a patient to combat sudden cardiac arrest, a silent killer that claims more than one million lives each year worldwide.
Headaches are a normal part of life for most teenagers, but they enter another realm when pain and pressure increase to unbearable levels, even exhibiting signs of a brain tumor. The disorder at the root of these headaches is called pseudotumor cerebri, or “fake brain tumor,” and is characterized by chronically increased pressure in the head in the absence of a tumor. It’s the focus area for a new clinic at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the first clinic in the country dedicated to treating p...
A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics calls for consistent use of warning labels on foods that put children at high risk for choking, a leading cause of death in children.
Ohio State cancer researchers and food scientists have developed a new soy bread that they’re hoping can take a bite out of prostate cancer.
In aggressive, new approach to physical therapy for children with cerebral palsy is helping them walk further and faster on their own, according to new research from Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Thanks to some remarkable technology, patients at Ohio State University Medical Center are choosing to take themselves off of the heart transplant waiting list and are living to tell about it with the help of a ventricular assist device (VAD).