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Young Valley Mom Stuns Doctors by Beating Deadliest Brain Cancer Will Celebrate First Mother’s Day Sunday  

Given just months to live in 2006, a 32-year-old Arizona woman, treated at St. Joseph’s Barrow Neurological Institute, has amazingly beat two brain tumors, outlived her projected life expectancy, and recently became a mother – all things no one ever thought imaginable. She will celebrate her first Mother’s Day this Sunday. May is also National Brain Tumor Awareness Month.

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Promising Treatment for Stroke Patients Significantly Improves Chances of Recovery

One of the most promising treatments for stroke is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), an FDA-approved clot busting drug that must be administered within 4.5 hours from the onset of symptoms to work best.

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MLB Pitcher Returns to Baseball after Complex Brain Surgery

A Seattle Mariners pitcher who is in the Valley for spring training has returned to the pitcher’s mound just three months after his brain ruptured causing him to undergo a critical and complex brain surgery at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center.

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Deep Brain Stimulation Clinic Expedites Patient Treatment at Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center

The Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center in Phoenix has launched a new clinic aimed at streamlining the process for the growing number of patients who are potential candidates for Deep Brain Stimulation.

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Valley Concussion Poll Worries Barrow Brain Injury Experts 

Released Just Before Super Bowl, Poll Confirms Concussion Misconceptions

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Barrow Researchers Successfully Destroy Brain Tumor Cells Use Unique Combination of Diet and Radiation Therapy 

(Phoenix, AZ Dec. 2, 2012) -- A team of brain cancer researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, “The Ketogenic Diet Is an Effective Adjuvant to Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant Glioma,” was published in PLOS ONE.

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