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Medical 3D printing: Tampa General Hospital and USF Health use...
TAMPA, Fla. -- There’s something dramatic and innovative occurring as Dr. Fadi Matar guides a catheter into a heart at Tampa General Hospital and carefully places a tiny plug to repair a hole....
First patient is “very impressed” with new surgical robot
Eddie L. White Jr. was surprised when he learned he might be the first person in Florida to have an operation with a new robotic surgery system called the Intuitive da Vinci SP.
But the more he...
Behind the scenes: How we prepare for a disaster with multiple...
We hope our area never suffers from any kind of disaster with multiple injuries, but we train like it's going to happen tomorrow. And we're not alone. Every year, law enforcement, hospitals and other...
TGH team members donate to colleagues, U.S. Coast Guard aid...
The carts rolled out of Tampa General Hospital like a parade Thursday afternoon, full of food and other goods destined for members of the U.S. Coast Guard as the partial federal government shutdown...
Ready for the real thing: TGH prepares for action with an...
The alert went out to Tampa General Hospital team members at 8:50 a.m. Thursday: Code Green. The annual countywide mass casualty drill was underway.
In this year's drill, emergency workers...
Better health in the Hundred Acre Wood: ZDoggMD charts a vision...
Imagine a health care visit in which patients look like Winnie the Pooh, beleaguered doctors have become soulless “Doc Vader” machines, and Hogwarts owls have to fly in to help isolated medical...
Running Gasparilla?
If you're running the Gasparilla Distance Classic this year, we've got some great training moves for you, thanks to our expert trainers at the Tampa General Hospital Health and Wellness Center...
Rush-hour delivery at the TGH Brandon Healthplex
Christine and Clifford Stallworth planned to deliver their daughter at Tampa General Hospital, but baby Janine didn't want to wait for rush-hour traffic. Listen to their adventure!
Want to learn...
Safe walkers, safe wheels
About 50 first and second grade students from St. Joseph Catholic School visited Tampa General Hospital on Tuesday for a lesson day called “Safe Walkers and Safe Wheels” by MORE HEALTH.
Each of...
Lighting up the holiday season at TGH
The holiday season is always a special time at Tampa General Hospital. We are fortunate enough to receive many visitors who want to bring gifts and holiday cheer to our patients. We've collected the...
More resources needed to target looming shortage of doctors,...
Florida has made progress in providing more graduate training for new doctors over the last four years, but the demand will continue to outstrip the supply, according to a new study released...
From misfortune, a journey of healing
Adam Cage was sitting at a stoplight when he was hit by a box truck in 2013.
He’s learned a few things since then.
“It doesn’t matter who you are,” he said Tuesday at a gathering of fellow...
As Hurricane Irma departs, baby Christopher arrives
Tampa General Hospital Labor & Delivery nurse Katie Dean was already scheduled to work hurricane duty when Irma pushed towards Tampa Bay.
So she packed her sleeping bag and reported for duty...
How best to respond to brother's illness? Make lemonade
When Avery Ranieri decided she wanted to sell lemonade to help sick children, she had no idea how big her effort would become.
But the lemonade stand that 9-year-old Avery hosted a few weeks ago...
Did they watch the eclipse? Oh, baby…
Tampa couple Lucy Roldan-Castro and Jesus Martinez had planned to watch the eclipse Monday.
But their baby, due September 3rd, had other plans.
Roland-Castro went into labor at 4 a.m. Monday,...
Cups of kindness: why Avery’s lemonade stand is THE cool place...
Avery Ranieri isn’t just a kid with a lemonade stand.
She’s a 9-year-old on a mission.
Avery wants to help other children like her little brother, Evan Ranieri, who was born with kidney disease...
Last week of work? Still enough time to make a new friend
It was the last week before retirement for TGH’s Sharon Zegalia – but she still got to experience something new.
Zegalia, an Employee Health specialist who retired Friday after a combined 35 years...
Bell rings to signal victory in 13-year-old's fight against...
The bell that rang out Friday afternoon at Tampa General Hospital marked a special victory for 13-year-old Katie Ballesteros.
The brand-new "chemo bell" was donated to the TGH Childlife Playroom...
For trauma survivors, small gestures can mean big victories
15-year-old Briant Cummings smiled as he lifted his left hand and curled his fingers.
Ordinarily, it would be a small gesture.
But on this particular Wednesday, Briant’s action made the room...
Divide and conquer: surgeon uses unusual technique to fight...
Kenneth Brant had no idea he had liver cancer – let alone a cancer so advanced and aggressive that fighting it would require a surgery never done before at Tampa General Hospital.
After a bout...
Flee from a raging wildfire? Not without my rhino
Donovan Smith, co-owner of the NGALA Wildlife Preserve near Naples, has cared for Walter the rhino since the animal was about a year old.
Smith and Walter the rhino
So when rapidly-moving...
Transplant patients return to say thank you
Six months after his kidney transplant, Michael Haggard and his wife Bekki made the journey from Miami to Tampa just to say four words: “Thank you for everything.”
Shay Manning, who was one of...
Before you go to prom, watch this
Before you go to the prom, please watch this message from our pediatric trauma surgeon, Dr. Noor Kassira:
Want some more good ideas for staying safe on prom night? Check out this page...
When cancer threatens, an innovative solution
Tampa resident Curtistine Bryant was looking forward to a milestone event when she got the bad news.
Instead of looking forward to seeing her two granddaughters graduate from high school in May,...
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