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...counterattacking with a new neuromedicine service line. The weapons: a 64-slice CT scanner; and a brand-new $3.5 million CyberKnife, an X-ray gun that zaps tumors with pinpoint precision, housed in its own $1.5 million building. It has set up a stroke-treatment center and brain-aneurysm lab. "This is one of the areas that we've beefed up since all the specialty stuff happened," says Larry Schumacher, CEO of Via Christi's Wichita operations. "We're trying very hard to protect that." Wesley, for its part, has remodeled its operating rooms, opened a $54 million, four-story...
DIED. Joe Niekro, 61, right-handed pitcher whose deadly knuckleball helped him to a career 221 wins in 22 seasons and who, with his knuckleball-hurling brother Phil, famously won more games than any other pair of brothers in major league baseball history; of a brain aneurysm; in Tampa, Fla. In 1976 the longtime Houston Astro hit his only career home run--against Phil, then pitching for the Atlanta Braves...
...problems and prescribed some antibiotics and a nasal spray. When she had no relief from her heart's nightly lullaby, she returned to the doctor who ordered a CT scan to further evaluate her sinuses. The CT scan revealed that her sinuses were fine, but she had a brain aneurysm located behind her ear. When she consulted a neurosurgeon, he immediately scheduled her for surgery because she was, as he told her, "a walking time bomb. This sort of aneurysm is what people drop dead from." This time both Sally and her husband were reduced to tears...
Until last year, Neil Young's public persona was a lot like his lyrics: alluring but largely opaque. The singer-songwriter didn't traditionally say much to the audience during concerts and rarely gave media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie...
These spare, mostly acoustic songs about death, loss and life's rearview mirror make for a draining listen. But they're not a drag because Young knows exactly how an album this thematically grim--he wrote and recorded it between being diagnosed with and treated for a brain aneurysm--needs to sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices that rise behind...