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Top Stories from St. Joseph's Hospital and Barrow Neurological Institute
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U.S. News & World Report Names St. Joseph’s in the Top Ten of the Nation’s Best Hospitals
U.S. News & World Report’s annual listing of top hospitals is the most respected of all national rankings. St. Joseph’s is routinely ranked in the top 10 for neurology and neurosurgery and has the highest ranking of any hospital in the state. St. Joseph’s ranked #8 in this year’s neurology and neurosurgery category.
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Sedona Boy Saved via St. Joseph’s Team of Doctors and Telemedicine
Seven-year-old Sedona native Trevor Slattery was on his way to a local pediatrician’s office in late May. He was fatigued and his parents were concerned about his heart rate. A few hours later he was at a Flagstaff emergency room going into severe heart failure and by the time he arrived at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center by air ambulance he was unresponsive and in shock. By the next morning, Trevor was cured.
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Extraordinary Measures taken to treat patient with Pompe disease
In the 2010 movie Extraordinary Measures starring Harrison Ford, a father searches for a life-saving drug for his son who suffers from Pompe disease, a rare and deadly genetic disorder. In Arizona, an infant is living with the same disease and is undergoing a new treatment to save his life at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center.
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Psychiatric service solves baffling patient cases
Treatment for something as common as a urinary tract infection (UTI) hardly seems like a medical issue that could lead to a psychiatric diagnosis. Yet the children of Cynthia Milliken, a woman who was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in mid-January for ongoing complications related to Guillain-Barré syndrome—a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system—learned that an antibiotic prescribed to their mother for a UTI prior to St. Joseph’s was the culprit behind her erratic behavior.
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St. Joseph’s offering genetic testing for melanoma cancer
Arizona residents lead the United States in getting skin cancer. Most people have been warned to play it safe by staying out of the sun during peak hours and by wearing sun protection when possible. But for some, even basic skin protection may not be enough because one type of skin cancer is genetic.
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