GEORGE HOYT WHIPPLE GEORGE RICHARDS MINOT WILLIAM PARRY MURPHY Last week these three names were the most resounding in World Medicine. Their owners, U. S. doctors all, had just been jointly awarded ...

Nicholas Whipple, MD, MPH, received his medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson, MS. After completing his pediatric residency at the University of Utah and ...

The Whipple procedure was originally developed by Dr. Allen Whipple in the 1930s.The surgery was abandoned for many years due to high complication rates. But it has returned to favor in recent ...

Dr Cameron led a revolution in the Whipple procedure in the 1980s, reducing postoperative mortality from about 20%, down to about 1%. This was achieved by adhering to gentle and precise surgical ...

The broad-spectrum antibiotic piperacillin-tazobactam used as perioperative prophylaxis significantly reduced surgical site infection (SSI) in patients undergoing open pancreatoduodenectomy (PD, or ...

And Dr. Reddy's plan was a major reason why he chose Fox Chase over other local cancer centers. Chemo also eliminates floating cancer cells. The primary surgery, called a Whipple procedure, is ...

Dr. Wei notes that right now, the robotic Whipple is meant for patients who have not had a related abdominal surgery and whose tumors are not connected to blood vessels. Today, about 10% to 15% of ...

Dr. Whipple has just returned from two scientific conferences in Russia, where he got the “runaround” when he asked to see Russian equipment. “We were not shown,” he said last week, ...

Dr. Nguyen Tran of the Mayo Clinic explains why someone would need a Whipple procedure. "Typically, with that type of procedure, it is more on the distal bile duct cancer, less likely a liver cancer.