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Reds pitcher helps local boy overcome medical condition
News August 12, 2016 5288
Tracy Blower heard about Melville and contacted him, hoping for maybe an autograph for her youngest son. Instead, Melville offered more. Much more. Melville invited Tracy,...
Virginia Hospital Opens Nuss Center for Chest Wall Deformities
News August 03, 2016 5841
Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) recently unveiled a space dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of chest wall deformities in children and young adults. The new Nuss Center...
Teen’s medical condition requires lesser-known surgery
News June 08, 2016 5285
Like most eighth grade boys, Matthew Thompson, of Smithton, loves spending time at the baseball field or at the basketball court taking part in a game. ...
Non-Narcotic Nerve Blocker Can Reduce Pain, Shorten Hospital Stays for Nuss Patients
News May 17, 2016 9779
In a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, researchers detailed how a more effective way of controlling pain has been developed, allowing children...
Tim Melville overcoming odds, on brink of big-league debut
News March 26, 2016 5359
Tim Melville will often scan a crowd and find a kid that is just like he was. It’s a small thing and he can see it in their posture...
Teen lifts himself to health
News January 08, 2016 8292
And now the 6-foot-4 Taylor has become a stud. He said the surgeon had advised him to do weight training to build up his chest muscles. A stronger chest...
Pectus excavatum may sound arcane, but chest wall disorder is fairly common disorder
News Updated January 07, 2016 5391
The Specialist: An assistant professor of thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai, Dr. Andrew Kaufman specializes in treating disorders of the chest wall — including pectus excavatum...
From patient to mentee
News November 03, 2015 6274
After undergoing surgery to have two steel bars inserted into her chest during the summer between her sophomore and junior year, Rebecca Uhl agreed with two rules from her...
Dr. Murtrie Treating PE Patients with Nuss
News October 13, 2015 5569
Even as a kid, Aaron Hollifield noticed he always had trouble exercising and playing sports. "At first, I thought it was just because I was lazy,"...
First ever pectus excavatum correction surgery with 3D printed titanium plate completed in China
News Updated September 15, 2015 16045
"...doctors in the TangDu Hospital of the fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an city, Shaanxi province, China, have recently and successfully completed a complex pectus excavatum procedure in which...
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