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• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Ramps up Cancer Treatment Capabilities with Stereotactic Systems from Elekta

  - 2008-09-30

  STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Regulatory News: Elekta AB (STO:EKTAB): Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center WFUBMC has reinforced its ability to perform state-of-the-art stereotactic radiation medicine by adding Leksell Gamma Knife[R] Perfexion[TM] and Elekta Axesse[TM] to its range of treatment solutions. "Precisely targeted irradiation of primary and metastatic...

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• Changing the course: from growing organs for transplants to using new types of imaging technology to find tumors, the center fights to advance humankind.

  - 2006-12-01

  At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, we believe that when an academic medical center has innovation as a guiding mission, the very course of humankind can be changed. Discoveries made through research or patient encounters can make life-and-death differences and affect millions of people around...

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• WFU team logs success growing organs from patients' cells

  - 2006-05-01

  WINSTON-SALEM -- Bio-engineered bladders grown from young patients' own cells have improved recipients' health and quality of life, according to a report by a renowned Wake Forest University specialist in an early-April issue of The Lancet. Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest...

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• Lab-grown bladder shows big promise.

  - 2006-04-17

  Byline: Peter Aldhous Apr 17, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- American scientists have grown new bladders from patients' cells. The new bladders have been grafted onto existing bladders of seven young patients. The new method of tissue development was...

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• Building a Better Web Site

  - 2006-03-01

  A Case Study in Cohesiveness.The Internet is the world's most powerful marketing tool when it is used well. It can bring a world of potential customers to your medical center's doorstep. However, too often Web sites create a confusing experience for visitors-one that can turn them away from your institution....

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• Reminder - OR-Live.com Presents: Biventricular Pacemaker Implantation for Severe Heart Failure

  - 2005-02-17

  Electrophysiologist Thomas Wannenburg, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, will implant a biventricular pacemaker live on the Internet Thursday, Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. on www.OR-Live.com The Heart Center at Wake Forest Baptist was the first in North Carolina to offer patients with...

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• OR-Live.com Presents: Biventricular Pacemaker Implantation for Severe Heart Failure

  - 2005-02-11

  Electrophysiologist Thomas Wannenburg, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, will implant a biventricular pacemaker live on the Internet Thursday, Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. on www.OR-Live.com The Heart Center at Wake Forest Baptist was the first in North Carolina to offer patients with...

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• Study Shows the SonoSite 180 Hand-carried Ultrasound System Effective in Detecting Neck Artery Blockages

  - 2002-03-04

  Business Editors, Health/Medical Writers BOTHELL, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 4, 2002 Results of Study Presented at the American Stroke Association's 27th International Stroke Conference SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), world leaders in the hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound market, today announced the results of a new study examining the effectiveness of the...

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• Two Winston Salem, N.C., Businesses Join Incubator.

  - 2002-01-22

  By Kristi E. Swartz, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 22--Two fledgling local businesses have joined Wake Forest University's new Babcock Demon Incubator. e3 Education, a company that is trying to launch an interactive, online high school,...

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• Ligand's ONTAK to be Evaluated in Treatment of Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia; Wake Forest University School of Medicine Initiates Physician Trial

  - 2001-01-18

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