Dr. William W. Montgomery, a Harvard surgeon who originated many techniques that are now widely used in operations on the throat and the vocal cords, died on Nov. 7, at his home in Brookline, Mass.
Dr. Fred J. Epstein, a pediatric neurosurgeon who devised new ways to operate on slow-growing tumors intertwined with brain stems and spinal cords, died on Sunday at his home in Greenwich, Conn.
In the Balkan Wars (1912 13), there was a 95percentt mortality rate for patients with spinal cord injury, and in World War I (1914 18), about 80percentt of American soldiers with spinal cord injury died before they returned home.
One of the men, Denis Burakov, 27, injured his spinal cord and died on the way to a hospital.
James John Peters, the executive director of the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association and a national voice to further research and treatment of spinal cord injuries, died Sept. 6 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan.
If he waits until the due date, the fetus, without any fluid to keep her afloat, may compress her umbilical cord and die.
At the same time, one of Dr. Levine's colleagues, Dr. Jay Griffin, has collaborated with specialists at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston to develop a new technique, called diffusion tensor imaging, whose sensitivity allows them to see precisely how spinal cord cells die.
The rapid paralysis that killed baseball legend Lou Gehrig begins when neurons in the brain and spinal cord mysteriously die.
Sadly, she is strangled by her umbilical cord and dies almost immediately.
i actually started yelling and carrying on in wal-mart's parking lot! all because all i found was some sort of a second or fourth rate brand with a 10 foot cord. it died after 2 uses.
