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Methodist Hospital

• Breast cancer advocate Roberta Schwartz named among Yoplait's 2008 Champions
  When Roberta Schwartz was facing breast cancer and the battle of her young life, she found nowhere to go for information and no support from others going through the same struggle. So she set out to change all that.

  Schwartz was just 27 when a physician told her she had an aggressive form of breast cancer. No one knew how to handle a young woman given this devastating news. She underw ...

• Methodist first in Houston to use robot to treat irregular heart beats
  Dr. Miguel Valderrabano, cardiologist at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, is the first in Houston to use a robotic catheter to treat irregular heart rhythms.

  From a control panel across the room from the patient, Valderrabano uses a robotic handle similar to a joystick to maneuver tiny wires through the blood vessels and into the patient’s heart, where he can treat the heart’s abnormal electrical impulses called arrhythmias, with heat that stops the errant currents.

  More than 2.5 million Americans have arrhythmias, which cause problems such as strokes. During atrial fibrillation, the most common arrhythmia, the heart's upper chambers quiver instead of beating efficiently. The blood that isn’t pumped completely out of the chamber can pool and clot, potentially causing a stroke if it breaks off and lodges in the patient’s brain.

• World's newest drug-eluting stent implanted at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
  A more flexible drug-eluting stent studied in clinical trials at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center has been approved by the FDA, and Methodist physicians were the first in Houston to implant the new device.

  The design of the new stent, the first approved by the FDA in four years, allows it to be placed in hard to reach blockages .Research conducted at Methodist was pivota

St Joseph Medical Center

Texas Children's Hospital

• Can you stump the doctor?
  Dr. Ralph Feigin, Texas Children’s physician-in-chief, pits his knowledge against young residents in a weekly game that challenges them to think outside the box.
• Leading Neuroscientists to set five research objectives for treating Cerebral Palsy at collaborative workshop
  Leading neuroscientists from the United States and Canada gathered in Houston for an intensive two-day pediatric brain injury workshop designed to identify objectives for treating cerebral palsy that are the most innovative, fundable, scientifically sound and achievable within a reasonable time frame.
• Texas Children's launches first-of-its kind vaccine center
  Texas Children's Hospital announced the creation of the Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research, a new program dedicated to providing parents and the medical community with up-to-date information about vaccines and conducting research that will contribute to the health of the nation's children and families. The Cocoon Strategy, the center's first project, aims to protect those most vulnerable - newborn babies - against whooping cough.

Womans Hospital of Texas
 

• The Woman's Hospital of Texas Ranked in Top 50 Best Hospitals for Gynecology by U.S.News & World Report's "Best Hospital Survey"
  The Woman's Hospital of Texas announced today its top 50 ranking in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals Survey". Woman's is ranked 43 in the nation for gynecologic care; one of only two hospitals in the Texas Medical Center to make the list for this specialty. The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center was the other facility ranked for top gynecologic care.