In September 1990, Dewey McClendon, a Montgomery County resident with a long history of heart trouble, became the first person to have open-heart surgery at…
On Aug. 9, 2017, cardiovascular intensive care nurse Sheryl Loehr, R.N., was doing much the same thing she had done on Sept. 5, 1990, and…
The findings of FirstHealth of the Carolinas coincide with those of a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the…
When Sharron Wood’s fallopian tube cancer recurred last fall, her FirstHealth medical oncologist suggested a treatment option that hadn’t been available at the time of…
Like many young men, William Clifford “Cliff” Kitchens, M.D., looked to his father’s influence as he was choosing a profession. Both father and son are…
There currently is no generally accepted standard of care for pancreatic cancer that has migrated to other parts of the body, but a current clinical…
FirstHealth of the Carolinas has been recognized as one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals for the seventh year. Technology is making it easier for…