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Do New Technologies Produce the Best Surgical Outcomes for Children?

January 24, 2013 | Story

Campbell’s most important work as a clinical scholar was on the surgical treatment of pyloric stenosis (a narrowing of the lower part of the stomach).

Elective Surgery in the United States: Location Matters

December 13, 2012 | Story

Wide variation in surgery highlights role of patient preference in medical decisions.

Boosting Nurse Education Gives Patients a Better Chance After Surgery

March 5, 2013 | Story

New study shows fewer deaths in hospitals that have higher percentages of nurses with baccalaureate degrees.

Hospitals' Acquisition of Surgical Robots Prompts More Surgery

April 21, 2011 | Story

A group of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars finds that rates of radical prostatectomies increase when hospitals invest in surgical robots.

Keith L. Black, MD

January 31, 2008 | Story

Black pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly into a tumor.

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