Boston Globe
By Meghan E. Irons
War forced him to flee from his homeland in Vietnam. Imperial, Neb., took him in. "Sesame Street" and other children's TV shows taught him English. But it was art that gave a young Hiep Nguyen a voice as a refugee in a strange land.
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The Pediatric Kidney Stone Center's co-directors discuss why kidney stones are becoming more common in children and how metabolic evaluation can help prevent them.
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James Mandell, MD, is president and CEO of Children's Hospital Boston as well as a pediatric urologist.
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Urologist Hiep Nguyen, MD, used "the robot" to reconstruct a teen's obstructed ureter. This technique offers the best of two surgical worlds--the precision of traditional surgery and the quick recovery from a minimally invasive procedure.
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| Photo: Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
Associated Press
BOSTON - The once-fanciful dream of regrowing the heart and other failing organs has suddenly edged closer to reality: The first complex organ, the bladder, has been rebuilt in seven patients from living tissue cultivated in the lab.
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| Photo: Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
Washington Post
By Rick Weiss
Researchers said yesterday that they have grown complete urinary bladders in a laboratory and transplanted them into patients, improving their health and achieving a Holy Grail of medicine: the first cultivation of working replacements for failing solid organs in people.
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View live from the operating room a pediatric robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty to remove an obstruction from a patient's kidney and reconnect the kidney's drainage system.
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Q&A on exstrophy of the bladder with Joseph Borer, MD, Alan Retik, MD, and Rosemary Grant, RN.
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