Teen's Hunger for Life Resorted Thanks to Stomach Pacemaker

December 27, 2016

Hunter's Story

Sidelined by a mystery illness, a rising high school football player dropped 20 pounds and kept getting sick until having a first-of-its-kind surgery at UT Southwestern.

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