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Scott Hamilton plans to return to skating after more than five years off the ice as part of a benefit for the Cleveland Clinic in November.
President Barack Obama says his trip Thursday to the Cleveland Clinic is aimed at highlighting a system that works well.
Cavaliers star LeBron James has been released from the Cleveland Clinic after a five-hour procedure to remove a benign growth from his jaw a day earlier.
Robin Williams was recovering at the Cleveland Clinic after heart surgery that his doctors deemed successful, his publicists said Monday. The 57-year-old actor had an operation to replace an aortic valve on March 13, publicists Mara Buxbaum and Chris Kanarick said. He was expected to make a complete recovery in the next eight weeks.
The family of a woman who was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee says her twin brother plans to go to court this week to seek guardianship of the victim and her daughter.
The Cleveland Clinic says a woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation.
The face transplant performed a few weeks ago by Dr. Maria Siemionow, a skilled and caring surgeon, and a team of other specialists at the Cleveland Clinic went far beyond several prior experiments, including the world's first such procedure in France three years ago. The Cleveland Clinic doctors replaced nearly the whole face of a woman with one from a female cadaver.
A woman so horribly disfigured she was willing to risk her life to do something about it has undergone the nation's first near-total face transplant, the Cleveland Clinic announced Tuesday. Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow and a team of other specialists replaced 80 percent of the woman's face with that of a female cadaver a couple of weeks ago in a bold and controversial operation certain to stoke the debate over the ethics of such surgery.
The Cleveland Clinic says it will publicize the business ties its 1,800 doctors and researchers have with drug companies and device makers.
Not only has a 56-year-old Ohio woman given birth to triplets, but they're her own granddaughters. Jaci Dalenberg, of Wooster, carried the babies as a surrogate for her daughter, Kim Coseno. The two identical twins and their sister were born by Caesarean section Oct. 11 at the Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights and are still in the hospital's care. They were more than two months premature and each weighed less than three pounds.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday after having a brain hemorrhage, a Cleveland Clinic official said.
Brad Kaster donated a kidney to his father this week, and he barely has a scar to show for it.
The Cleveland Clinic, highly regarded for its cardiac care, doesn't hire smokers or allow trans-fats on its menus, and now it's joining with a nationally known weight control program to help its employees shape up and slim down.
The Cleveland Clinic settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died seven years after a surgeon left a rolled-up towel inside her chest.
A neurosurgeon at the renowned Cleveland Clinic used a dog with an induced brain aneurysm to demonstrate a medical device to salespeople, the Clinic said Thursday.
Study: Redheads' Extra Pain May Cause Fear of DentistsStudies have indicated that redheads may be more sensitive to pain and may need more anesthetics to numb them.
Brothers: Victim of chimp attack feared animalA Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee in February had feared the animal might hurt someone and described him as mean and so strong that she had to repair his cage several times, her brothers said.
Brothers: Victim of chimp attack feared animalA Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee in February had feared the animal might hurt someone and described him as mean and so strong that she had to repair his cage several times, her brothers said.
State officials were warned about attack chimpRecords show that Connecticut officials failed to take action after they were repeatedly warned about the dangers posed by a chimpanzee who later mauled and blinded a woman.
Man is cited for owning an endangered apeA man already accused of keeping a collection of wild animals including a river otter and a two-toed sloth has been cited for owning an endangered ape.
Chimp's Victim Moved To Face-Transplant ClinicA Connecticut woman critically injured this week by a rampaging chimpanzee has been transferred to the Cleveland Clinic, a reconstructive surgery center that two months ago performed the nation's first face transplant.
Face transplant patient regains self-confidenceCHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr.
Transplant patient at home with new face-She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss.
Scientists test brain pacemakersIt's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients' nerve circuitry fires.
Cleveland Clinic's Medical School To Offer Tuition-Free EducationThe medical school run by the Cleveland Clinic will offer a tuition-free education, in the hope that a substantial reduction of post-graduation debt will encourage top students to enter academic medicine.
Google, Cleveland Clinic Team Up on Patient Record InterfaceThe Cleveland Clinic is helping Google to build tools that could enable consumers to manage their health information electronically.
Google Health? Search Engine to Store Medical RecordsGoogle Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
Google in joint venture with Cleveland Clinic - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:Google Inc. took its first step into the online health-care arena with a partnership with nonprofit academic medical center Cleveland Clinic. The partnership includes a pilot program to help give patients more control over medical records that are stored online.
Hope for Bald Guys: Someday, You Can Inherit a Dead Guy's HairThe Cleveland Clinic's become world-renowned for making all kinds of medical advances, not the least of which is milking huge donations from rich, dead guys like Al Lerner.
The Cleveland Clinic: Rewiring the Brain"The fact that recognizing and acknowledging a familiar person is such a complex thing made it all the more remarkable in early August when scientists announced that a 38-year-old man had managed to pull it off.
Cleveland Clinic Performs First DBS Implant Procedure on Minimally Conscious Patient (ie this is your brain on batteries)"Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon Ali R. Rezai, M.D., and collaborators from a multi-center team have for the first time used deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat a patient in a minimally conscious state (MCS) resulting from severe traumatic brain injury.
Life In A Swing State -- Bush Hot On Democratic Candidates' Heels In Courting ClevelandPerhaps seeking to offset some of the recent press garnered by the four Democratic candidates who made an appearance at a United Steelworkers convention in Cleveland late last week, on July 10 President George W.
Clinic therapist quits in fear of ex-boyfriend - Plain Dealer Top StoryA physical therapist at the Cleveland Clinic resigned Thursday after learning her ex-fiance, a brain surgery resident, can return to work after serving jail time for beating her on the head at the hospital.
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