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Patients' Tremors Stopped After New Non-Invasive, Pain-Free Brain Surgery

Phyllis Walker's hands used to shake so badly she had to stop eating at the dinner table with her family. "As a normal thing, I pretty much ate over the sink, so that I wouldn't spill things," the 77-year-old grandmother from Ivor, Va., said. "I could not use a fork and knife, couldn't -- just didn't want to sit at the table and be embarrassed." Just four hours away in Burtonsville, Md., 56-year-old Dot Highberg was also losing control of her hands. She tried medication after medication, each...Full Story
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