Thumbs Up, Wings Down: Patient and WWII Veteran Leaves Lasting Impact on Anesthesiologist Who Cared for Him 

Advancing health. Personalizing care. It’s a promise that Memorial Hermann has made to its community, and it’s one that Dr. Yvonne Cormier, an anesthesiologist affiliated with Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center, fully embraces. In fact, Dr. Cormier’s experience with her longtime patient, Glenn Martin, is a direct reflection of the System’s brand promise in [Continue Reading]

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Beating the Odds

The BRCA gene mutations give women a 50-50 chance of developing breast cancer. Genetic testing can help them make a plan to protect themselves. Dana Cherry knew there was a good chance she would get breast cancer. When she was 25, she discovered that she had a gene mutation associated with a 50 percent chance [Continue Reading]

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Still Going Strong After Ten Years: The Center for Advanced Heart Failure, and its first LVAD recipient, celebrate a milestone.

When Memorial Hermann’s Center for Advanced Heart Failure first opened 10 years ago, Ray Anderson had been told he had only a few months left to live. In 2008, Anderson had a major heart attack that he mistook, at first, for indigestion. He drank an entire bottle of Pepto-Bismol over the course of the day, [Continue Reading]

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Atrial Fibrillation Doesn’t Always Hurt. Here’s Why You Need to Take It Seriously.

Glen Provost was sitting in his recliner one day near the end of 2019 when he felt a strange sensation in his chest. “It wasn’t painful. It wasn’t really even uncomfortable. It was just really weird,” he recalls. “I analogize it to what it feels like when you’re in an elevator and the elevator changes [Continue Reading]

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Giving Back: Kimberly Richardson beat stage III breast cancer. Now she’s working to support others on their cancer journey.

Nearly four years ago, second grade elementary school teacher Kimberly Richardson received the worst news of her life. “It was as if the world had stopped moving for a moment,” she says, describing how she could not comprehend her diagnosis with stage III invasive ductal carcinoma, a form of breast cancer.  “The doctor began to [Continue Reading]

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Breast Cancer Patient’s Fight Continues Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Heather Sessions When Chealci Eddins found a lump in her breast during a self-exam in the shower in September 2019, she wasn’t too worried. A young wife and mother, she had just finished her master’s degree and had plans to earn her Ph.D. She never dreamed that, at age 27, she would be diagnosed [Continue Reading]

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