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The Next Generation of Innovation

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has opened the doors to Wake Forest Biotech Place, a new state-of-the-art, world-class, 242,000 square foot biotechnology research and innovation center designed to allow more growth of Wake Forest Baptist’s many renowned research departments and create incubator space to promote start-up companies generated by researchers’ discoveries and space for established biomedical research companies.

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Report Highlights Economic Impact of WFBMC

A report by Battelle Memorial Institute says Wake Forest Baptist represents one of North Carolina’s preeminent institutions for participation and growth in the life-science economy and its importance is expanding given the rising status of life sciences as the driver of U.S. economic progress today and in the future.

Bedwetting Often Due to Undiagnosed Constipation

Many stubborn cases of bedwetting are actually due to undiagnosed constipation, according to new research by Steve Hodges, MD, pediatric urologist. If the underlying problem isn’t treated, children and their parents must endure an unnecessarily long, costly and difficult quest to cure nighttime wetting.

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Body Location Plays Part in Scratching Pleasure

New research from Gil Yosipovitch, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a world-renowned itch expert, shows that how good scratching an itch feels is related to the itch’s location.

Yosipovitch said this research helps lead to a better understanding of itch and how to relieve it for people who have skin disease like eczema and psoriasis.



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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Friday that a subsidiary has gained state approval to move three licensed operating rooms to the center's Clemmons medical campus.
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Feb. 13, 2012   ModernMedicine
 
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Feb. 08, 2012   The-Dispatch.com
 
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