Latest St. Joseph's Hospital Stories
St. Joseph's Hospital Performs State's First "Lung-in-a-Box" Transplant PHOENIX, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lung transplant surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix have performed Arizona's first "breathing" lung transplantation. Even in transport, these lungs are kept breathing and circulating with blood. This experimental sci-fi technology, nicknamed "Lung-in-a-Box," could revolutionize the field of lung transplantation. (Photo:...
$1 Million Cash Grand Prize Awarded in Health & Wealth Raffle PHOENIX, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Health & Wealth Raffle, benefiting Barrow & St. Joseph's, awarded a total of $1,360,000 in Grand Prizes to three lucky Arizonans. Sedona resident Dawn Lay won $1 million on Monday, April 29, at a grand prize unveiling at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130507/LA09693) "My boss told me that astrologically, something...
More than 2,000 prizes up for grabs as the Raffle adds new, once-in-a-lifetime experiences for its 10th anniversary PHOENIX, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Launching today, the Health & Wealth Raffle, benefiting Barrow Neurological Institute & St. Joseph's Hospital, is back this spring with a new look, more prize drawings, and new, once-in-a-lifetime experience packages. "For the Raffle's 10(th) anniversary, we've refreshed the Raffle, and it's better for the players,...
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- St. Joseph's Children's Hospital patients woke to a superhero surprise outside their hospital room window Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Spider-Man joined forces with High-Rise Window Cleaning to take on the force of evil known as dirty windows, and brought some much-needed smiles to sick children in the process. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130221/DC64584) After rappelling down the roof, the webbed hero began his...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fifth-grade students from a Tampa Bay area school got an up-close look at their dollars in action when they visited the St. Anthony's Hospital Susan Sheppard McGillicuddy Breast Center on Monday, Dec. 10. The students from Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in Seminole, Fla., had raised money for the center in October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month and came for a visit to meet the daughter of the center's namesake and...
Use unique combination of diet and radiation therapy A team of brain cancer researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, "The Ketogenic Diet Is an Effective Adjuvant to Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant Glioma," was published in PLOS ONE. Led by Adrienne C. Scheck, PhD, Principal Investigator in Neuro-Oncology and...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Frosting, gingerbread and fun were the order of the day during "Sprinkles!" the first interactive cookie decorating class sponsored by the St. Anthony's Hospital Foundation on Dec. 1. The special fundraising event kicked off the holiday season at the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121203/DC23121) The Vinoy's Executive Chef Mark Heimann and Pastry Chef Michael Morlan...
PHOENIX, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With reported cases of hepatitis C skyrocketing around the nation, experts at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have launched an innovative state-wide program to help doctors in rural and underserved areas diagnose and treat this hard-to-cure disease. The high-tech project, called HCVNET, will include outreach to 15 areas, including the Navajo and Hopi Native American reservations. It is being funded by a $250,000 grant from the United...
PHOENIX, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center today performed their 50(th) lung transplant this year, a remarkable number reached by only a handful of hospitals around the nation. It was only five years ago that St. Joseph's performed its first lung transplant and just last November the hospital reached a total of 100 transplants for this young program. The increasing pace of lung transplantations at St. Joseph's comes as...
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The most comprehensive robotic surgery program in the Tampa Bay area now offers the latest in minimally-invasive procedures: the ability to remove a gallbladder through just one small incision in the bellybutton. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121029/DC01900 ) Dr. David F. Echevarria performed the first single site robotic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) last week at St. Joseph's Hospital's Advanced Center...
