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Doctor’s at makeshift tube leads to potential lifesaving invention

Megan Pope knew before she gave birth to Madi that her daughter could possibly have a rare birth defect causing her to be born without part of her esophagus — the passage to her stomach. Pope and her husband, Matthew, did their research to find out all …
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For life-saving invention, Timothy Chuter earns high royalties

Until the early 1990s, repairing aneurysms in the abdomen was a messy, risky procedure that involved slicing patients open. Dr. Timothy Chuter wanted a better way. To prop up weak blood vessels at risk of rupturing, the young, aspiring surgeon devised a …
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