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• Tulane University liver-transplant patient becomes gold-medal

  - 2007-09-26

  A man who received a liver transplant at Tulane University Hospital & Clinic has won five medals at the 2007 World Transplant Games in Bangkok, Thailand, according to Tulane University Magazine.

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• Tulane medical examination teaching program moving into new digs in

  - 2007-04-18

  Along with a mannequin named Harvey, Tulane University medical students learning how to conduct basic physical examinations will move this spring to a new state-of-the-art teaching facility on floor 22 of 1555 Poydras St. The Standardized Patients Program has been housed in a clinical skills center on Tulane...

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• Author/Journalist to Share Secrets of Cancer Patients ; Free Lecture at Tulane Features Stories, Tips About What to Say and Do to Support People Touched by Cancer or Other Serious Conditions

  - 2006-10-04

  To: Health Desk, Features Desk, Books DeskContact: Madeline Vann of Tulane University, 504-247-1425; 504- 427-7299, or mvann@Tulane.edu; Lori Hope: 510.499.3179, lori@lorihope.comNEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What should one say or do to support someone who has cancer or any serious disease or condition? Author and cancer survivor Lori Hope...

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• Avon Foundation donation funds Tulane cancer screenings for

  - 2006-09-25

  The Avon Foundation awarded the Tulane Cancer Center a $250,000 grant to provide access to breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up care for uninsured and underserved women in New Orleans. Currently, only one in five women seeking care at community health centers in New Orleans are receiving...

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• Cancer gets even harder in the Big Easy

  - 2006-05-17

  Harvey Stern has returned to his home in New Orleans. But, like many cancer patients in this storm-ravaged city, he must leave to receive treatment. Before Hurricane Katrina, Stern received treatment for advanced colon cancer at Charity Hospital, just a few miles from his home. Charity, which treated...

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• Tulane Doctors Provide Free Medical Care for Post-Katrina New Orleans

  - 2005-10-10

  NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Despite significant flood damage to the Tulane University Health Sciences Center, courageous clinical care has been performed by Tulane physicians since Hurricane Katrina struck the Crescent City. "Thanks to the creativity of our physicians-in-training, we have provided free medical care for the...

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• For city's historic hospital, help is needed 'in a hurry'

  - 2005-09-02

  Three days after Lake Pontchartrain claimed New Orleans' Charity Hospital, hundreds of doctors and patients were still marooned Thursday in dangerous waters without food, water, medicine or power. The phones were dead, the halls were dark and the heat unbearable. Desperately ill patients who needed oxygen were being kept...

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• Tulane research forestalls premature ejaculation woes

  - 2004-10-25

  Help is on the way for men and not a second too soon. Tulane University urologists successfully tested an oral compound for the treatment of premature ejaculation. Tulane urologist Wayne Hellstrom presented the results at the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina....

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• New office to help doctor in obesity fight

  - 2001-01-30

  By MICHAEL HOOPER The Capital-Journal In the past four years, Dr. Rick Tague's patients have lost a combined 40,000 pounds. To accommodate his growing practice treating those suffering from obesity, Tague recently opened an 11,000-square-foot office at 2840 S.W. Urish Road. ...

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• Cis Technologies, Inc. Begins Outsourcing Relationship With Tulane University Hospital And Clinic

  - 1995-06-06

  TULSA, Okla.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 6, 1995--CIS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM:CISI) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Tulane University Hospital and Clinic TUHC to provide billing and accounts receivable management services for its hospital-based clinic patient accounts. As one of the nation's leading teaching hospitals, TUHC is focused...

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