MaryAnn Fletcher
Blogs by MaryAnn Fletcher
Hip Dysplasia Surgery Puts Mountain Trekker Back on the Trail
Kara Hayslip, an athletic young woman, was sidelined by hip dysplasia pain. Her Duke doctor offered hip-preserving surgery as a way to head off hip replacement…
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Mom Turns Heartbreak into Mission to Prevent Premature Births
Moline Prak Pandiyan's son was born preterm and lived just five and a half months. After care from Duke Maternal-Fetal Medicine, her second child was born full…
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Clip Repairs Leaky Heart Valve When Surgery Is too Risky
Linda Gallipo went to her doctor seeking a cure for her hepatitis C. Instead, she learned she had life-threatening mitral valve disease.
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PrEP HIV-Prevention Clinic Opens at Duke
Duke's new PrEP clinic helps people at high risk for HIV take steps to prevent infection. Read answers to your questions about HIV PrEP.
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Metastatic Lung Cancer Patient Finds Effective Therapy in Clinical Trial
Ginger Scott needed new options to treat her metastatic lung cancer. A clinical trial at Duke gave her just that.
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Torn ACL Treatment: It’s Different for Girls
Female athletes suffer ACL tears—a common knee injury—more often than their male counterparts. That's why a Duke orthopaedic surgeon tailors women's ACL…
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Cochlear Implant Restores Woman’s Joy in Communicating
A cochlear implant restored hearing for Nellie Murphy, who had suffered hearing loss for decades. Watch the video to see doctors turn on Murphy's hearing…
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Experienced Care Makes Difference in Thyroid Cancer Treatment
Fayetteville artist Stephanie Bostock didn’t know how advanced her thyroid cancer was when she was first diagnosed. But she knew she needed to find experienced…
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Scoliosis X-rays are safer with lower-radiation technology
New technology helps Duke doctors monitor Ellie Garman’s scoliosis (curvature of the spine) while reducing her X-ray radiation exposure.
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Telestroke technology speeds Danville woman to lifesaving stroke treatment
All Juanita Grant remembers is talking on the phone in her Danville, VA, apartment. Then she woke up at Duke University Hospital and learned she’d had a stroke…
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Duke Telestroke Network Improves Stroke Care, Patient Outcomes at NC, VA Hospitals
People experiencing stroke symptoms have access to advanced care at Duke Telestroke Network hospitals. These partnerships are improving and expediting stroke…
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Closing Cleft Lip and Palate with Fewer Surgeries, Better Results
Thanks to nasoalveolar molding (NAM), Duke doctors were able to repair little Paisleigh Hamilton's cleft lip and palate with fewer surgeries.
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