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Hurdle in Giffords' Recovery: How to Replace Her Skull
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsOne of the many medical hurdles facing Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is replacing the part of her skull that was removed to relieve swelling in her brain after she was shot at a meet-and-greet event on Jan. 8. Surgeons removed the bone from the congresswoman in the first days after she was shot in the head; in the coming months, they'll need to put the brain-protecting bone back into place. How exactly do surgeons go about replacing a part of the skull? The idea of replacing the bone -- or removing it in the first place -- may make most people cringe, but neurosurgeons say the procedure is so ...
She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFor a moment in time, she was pediatric resident Dr. Marnie Rose at Memorial Hermann in Houston. I got to know her a little during my first, tumultuous year of recovery from ovarian cancer. Dr. Rose was on TV. Back in those days I was combing the schedule for any reality show that slithered its way to the tube. There among the dreck of the early 2000s (guilty pleasures "Mr. Personality," et al., I'm looking at you) was the lovely Ms. Rose in "Houston Medical," an ABC show that featured doctors, patients and their families. The program, shot over the course of a year, ran for six episodes in ...
Cops: Teacher Lied About Brain Cancer to Skip Work
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(July 19) -- Teachers receive plenty of questionable sick notes from students. Authorities in Pennsylvania say one special-education teacher has been dishing them out. Police believe Middletown educator Leslie Herneisey, 51, lied about tumors and cancer for more than a decade so she could skip work. Herneisey began accruing sick leave by allegedly claiming she had a brain tumor, then asked for eight weeks off while she supposedly underwent chemotherapy for an inoperable form of brain cancer. ...
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