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Phinneys: Successful surgery for Davis; Olympics for Taylor
Updated 1h 26m ago By Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press The first stage of surgery to help cycling great Davis Phinney in his battle with Parkinson's disease was successful Friday, the same day the International Cycling Union released rankings that confirmed Phinney's 17-year-old son, Taylor, is about to become a U.S. Olympian. Surgeons at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., spent about 4½ hours embedding two wires in a section of Davis Phinney's brain, doing so without complication. Next week, they'll attach a pacemaker to those wires, and when that machine gets turned on later this month, doctors believe some of his Parkinson's symptoms will be immediately relieved. READ more
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