Guitarist Williams back playing after double wrist breaks
Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame member Danney Williams, a guitarist, fractured both distal radius wrists in a church ladder fall. He was treated at SMH Health emergency department and Express Care with surgery to repair left wrist first, then the right, restoring his ability to play.
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Danney Williams
Williams
SMH Health
Ryan Fleming
Express Care Clinic
Ortho Kansas
Fleming
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Neal Lintecum
Lintecum
Cancer drug shortages force Kansas providers to ration care
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Cancer Center staff faced delays in carboplatin and later cisplatin supplies, prompting dose reductions up to 10 percent and consideration of alternative drugs as part of a national shortage of more than a dozen essential cancer medications. The impact includes potential delays to treatments and heightened uncertainty for nurses and pharmacists, who fear sleep loss and worsening patient outcomes.
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AdventHealth
Kansas
AdventHealth Oncology
Kyla Bidne
Bidne
Different transplant method may boost available hearts
Duke Health researchers report donation after circulatory death DCD can expand donor heart supply by about 30 percent. In a multi site NEJM study 180 recipients showed six month survival 94 percent for DCD hearts versus 90 percent for standard brain dead hearts. The approach uses portable machines to reanimate and test hearts before transplant.
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Washington
Duke Health
Jacob Schroder
Duke University School of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
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Zachary Fitch
Duke University Hospital
Durham
N.C
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