"The nerves regenerate at the maximum speed of about one inch per month."
By CHRISTINA LOPEZ (@JournalistLopez) and MATTHEW LAROTONDA (@mattlarotonda)
Jan. 29, 2013
A team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital (click here for video) has performed the hospital's first successful bilateral arm transplant -- giving two new arms to Brendan Marrocco, an Iraq war veteran.
"I feel great. I'm doing a lot better now," said Marrocco, 26, during a news conference Tuesday of his recovery from last month's procedure. "It gives me a lot of hope for the future."
Members of Marrocco's surgical team, led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, provided details today in Baltimore on exactly how the doctors did the rare transplant and prevented Marrocco's body from rejecting the new limbs....
It would seem John Hopkins is living up to every expectation.
Mon, Jan 28 2013 at 10:25 AM
By CHRISTINA LOPEZ (@JournalistLopez) and MATTHEW LAROTONDA (@mattlarotonda)
Jan. 29, 2013
A team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital (click here for video) has performed the hospital's first successful bilateral arm transplant -- giving two new arms to Brendan Marrocco, an Iraq war veteran.
"I feel great. I'm doing a lot better now," said Marrocco, 26, during a news conference Tuesday of his recovery from last month's procedure. "It gives me a lot of hope for the future."
Members of Marrocco's surgical team, led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, provided details today in Baltimore on exactly how the doctors did the rare transplant and prevented Marrocco's body from rejecting the new limbs....
It would seem John Hopkins is living up to every expectation.
Mon, Jan 28 2013 at 10:25 AM
With a staggering $350 million gift (click here) to Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 27, Michael Bloomberg has become the largest living donor to education in American history.
The NY Times broke the news that with this latest sum, the 70-year-old financial giant has gifted more than $1.1 billion to his alma mater. Not bad for an engineering major whose first gift to the school was a $5 donation in 1965....
