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Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Ralph Damiano, of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO, spoke with StopAfib.org at Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 2009. He shared information about new custom approaches to surgical and catheter ablation treatment of atrial fibrillation that he had presented at Boston Afib.

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Surgeons at the Washington University Eye Center and Barnes-Jewish Hospital are among the first to use a new surgical device to treat glaucoma.

Surgery with the device, called a Trabectome, is an outpatient procedure that takes less time to perform and offers a shorter recovery than traditional glaucoma surgery.

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By Betsy Taylor, Associated Press, October 15, 2008

Ted Harrison tries not to eat food with more than 2 grams of fat per serving; he''s tried just about every cholesterol-fighting medication on the market, and just the same he''s had more than a dozen surgeries to clear up heart and artery problems.

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