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Hermann Hospital
launches Life Flight, the
first private hospital air
ambulance service.
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Texas Heart Institute
releases first patient in
the world with an electric,
portable, battery-powered
heart pump.
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Texas Children's Hospital
collaborates with NASA to
construct plastic isolator
bubble for boy born with
severe immune disorder.
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Texas Children's Hospital
delivers Perkins sextuplets—
the only surviving sextuplets
in Texas—at 30 weeks.
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Over 150 member and
community leaders gather
to discuss the future of the
Texas Medical Center and
position it as the world's
leader in life sciences.
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Researchers from
Rice University and
Baylor College of Medicine
discover a way to grow blood
vessels and capillaries.
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More than
68 babies
are born every day
in the TMC.
Clinical research in the TMC generates an average of
15 new start-up businesses
new discovery
a year and averages a
every other day.
Collectively, the TMC is the
in Houston.
largest employer
