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Through most of her routine physical exam, the teenage girl chatted amiably with Sunanda Vadapalli, MD, a Valencia pediatrician. Then, at the doctor’s request, the girl’s mother stepped out of the
After Beating a Brain Tumor, Nathan Builds a New Life
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Cisplatin and Hearing Loss: Until Now, an Unquantified Risk
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