MaryAnn Fletcher

Blogs by MaryAnn Fletcher

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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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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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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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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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Ginger Scott needed new options to treat her metastatic lung cancer. A clinical trial at Duke gave her just that.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks to nasoalveolar molding (NAM), Duke doctors were able to repair little Paisleigh Hamilton's cleft lip and palate with fewer surgeries.