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On August 12, 2008, Koswara's story was the subject of an ABC's Medical Mystery episode entitled "Tree Man". [ 18 ] On 26 August 2008, Koswara returned home following surgery to remove 6 kg (13 lb) of warts from his body. [ 19 ]
Dede Koswara (1971 – January 30, 2016), also known as the "Tree Man", was an Indonesian carpenter with epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV), a rare disease that causes the human papillomavirus (HPV) to grow uncontrollably, leading to the development of warts resembling tree bark. For most of his life, he was shunned for having an unknown disease.
For years, a man from Bangladesh lived with "tree man" syndrome. Abul Bajandar's hands and feet grew foot-long "roots" that left him unable to feed himself, move around, work or wear normal clothing.
[8] [9] Today, Harbor-UCLA is the only Level I trauma center south of the Santa Monica Freeway and Santa Ana Freeway as well as west of the Los Angeles-Orange County line. [9] [10] The Harbor–UCLA Medical Center campus is home to The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, an independent, not-for
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, also known as the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, is a biomedical research center at the University of California, Los Angeles that focuses on stem cell research. The center's more than 250 faculty members represent the UCLA professional schools as ...
Donald R. Hodel is the emeritus environmental horticulturist for the University of California Cooperative Extension in Los Angeles. In 1988, Hodel authored a book, published by the California ...
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City of Hope is a private, non-profit clinical research center, hospital and graduate school located in Duarte, California, United States.The center's main campus resides on 110 acres (45 ha) of land adjacent to the boundaries of Duarte and Irwindale, with a network of clinical practice locations throughout Southern California, satellite offices in Monrovia and Irwindale, and regional ...