HEALTHCARE INNOVATIONS
Debuting in
Dallas-Fort Worth:
Healthcare
Innovations
The best stories are about people.
And caring for those people
makes some of the most dynamic
business out there. In North Texas,
some of the best minds in science,
education, technology and business
team up to put their respective
talents to work in an industry that’s
all about people: healthcare
using organs from live donors and following lessons
learned from teams in Sweden who had also been
successful helping mothers bring life into the world.
And this team was successful.
The mother of the baby girl born in February was the
first to speak out, on conditions of anonymity to protect
her privacy, exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.
“It’s important to carry your own child and to feel that
bond that you have when she’s in your womb,” she
said. This woman is among thousands born with no
uterus or cervix, a condition that affects around 1 in
5,000 women.
The successful birth of this little girl also furthered
hope for the health system’s uterine transplant
program. “This is proof that it was not a clinical
stunt,” said Giuliano Testa, M.D., a transplant
surgeon on the medical staff of Baylor Scott &
White Health and principal investigator in the trial.
“We want to make this a reality for all women who
have this kind of problem, and we believe even more
that this is the right way forward.”
Despite all the high-tech science behind the birth of
their baby girl, the couple has settled into a very typical
new parent routine – feedings, nap times – and little
sleep for mom and dad.
Oh, Baby: Uterine
Transplant Signals
Birth of Possibility
in U.S.
The first successful uterine transplant birth in
the U.S., a baby boy born in Dallas, has given
life to hope that women who were told they
would never have children could, one day,
carry a child of their own. And the second
successful U.S. transplant, resulting in a 6-lb,
7-oz. baby girl this past February, proved that
even a science in its infancy can reap life-
changing benefits.
Last November, the baby boy delivered at Baylor
University Medical Center in Dallas became the first in
the nation to be born to a woman whose uterus had
been implanted from another woman’s body. In 2016,
a transplant team from Baylor Scott & White Health
became the first in the U.S. to try uterine transplant,
Virtual Reality
Brings New
Adventures to Elderly
It’s Tuesday afternoon – do you know where
your grandma is? She could be experiencing the
joys of a jazz club, doing some skydiving or
marveling at fish while scuba diving – all while
sitting in a comfortable chair in her home or
a senior living center.
Fly, swim or
dance from the
comfort of home
But this immersive, mind-body experience helps
seniors reap the benefits of exploring a world outside
their own walls. It’s technology beyond entertainment,
and a great example of a corporate-academic
partnership that is bettering the lives of senior citizens
in North Texas and across the country.
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