Tom Corwin
Science and Medicine Reporter at The Augusta Chronicle
Contributor at Post and Courier
Tom Corwin covers Health for the Post and Courier in Charleston because he can't get a real job.
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1 week ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
WALTERBORO — Bralyn Padgett woke just after her car crashed into a dirt embankment, taking out a trash can and three fences along the way. She felt a burning sensation and looked down to see that a pole from the top rail of a chain-link fence had come across the hood, through the windshield and pierced the center of her chest. It went all the way through the back of her seat while it was still attached to a 30-foot section that wrapped around her car.
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1 week ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
ORANGEBURG — It was kind of a strange buzzing sensation that went across her head as it was ensconced in the helmet, causing her right eye to twitch at first and making her grit her teeth. But by the time Lori Wingard, 44, was through with her five-day treatment there was a difference in her severe depression. "I fall asleep faster," said Wingard, who has battled depression for 30 years.
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2 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
Prisoners executed by lethal injection in states like South Carolina are receiving corrosive chemicals that tear into the lungs, and the condemned could essentially die while drowning in their own fluids, said a medical expert who reviewed dozens of autopsies. But a medical consultant hired by the state disputes that the drugs do that and said even if they did, it would be "immaterial" because the inmate would already be unconscious.
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2 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
An MUSC spinoff company is already helping difficult-to-treat cancer patients and has shown it can create a therapy that is far cheaper and has fewer side effects than what is currently available. But Lipo-Immuno Tech needs millions more to get to the next stage of clinical testing and it could be seeking it at one of the worst times for investing in the biotech industry due to all of the upheaval in both pubic funding cuts and a private market spooked by uncertainty, one expert said.
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2 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
WEST ASHLEY — Shama Winston-Ford, 41, is deeply involved in education. She teaches in the psychology department at Charleston Southern University while she is working on her doctorate. After she was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in 2014, she quickly became a facilitator for other lupus patients and went to Washington, D.C. recently to educate the state’s delegation on her condition and the need to preserve funding for research.
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