Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. -Vivian Komori which would not have been possible without a strong hospital-based research presence. These "firsts" included the first use of insulin in a human to control diabetes, the first heart transplant performed at a private hospital, one of the first hospital-based hospice units in the country, one of the first emergency helicopter services in the U.S., the first kidney stone treatment in the country

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... g shockwave lithotripsy, and the development of the Medicare Heart Bypass Demonstration Program--one of 7 such Medicare-sponsored programs formed to evaluate the feasibility of paying a single, prospectively contracted price for heart bypass procedures. While keeping with the tradition of research at Methodist Hospital, research initiatives will be further aligned with the IU School of Medicine. To that end, IU Health will be closing the basic science research laboratories of the Methodist Research Institute, effective mid-February 2015, and MRI will strengthen its support for clinical research through a broad range of services for physicians and other health care professionals who are engaged in research throughout the IU Health system. In addition, MRI will play an instrumental role in the newly formed Clinical Trials Organization (CTO), which Grant Deadlines NIH R01 who works in the MRI Biorepository, was recently married. She is now Kassie Marquiss. 2. Leave special effects for the movies. Remove the 3D features and drop shadows. 3. Remove repetitive information. If the bars are labeled, the legend is redundant. 4. Sort the data and present it in a meaningful order. 5. Use colors with a purpose. If one set of numbers is more important than the rest, color can be used to highlight that data. 6. Eliminate head tilting. Straighten type that is not horizontal. If the amount of text in the labels does not fit well in a column graph, switch to a horizontal bar graph. 7. Add a title to the graph. Let people know up front what the graph is about. As demonstrated in the reformatted graph below, to show the number of deaths attributed to stroke relative to other causes, removing the clutter and reorienting the initial graph makes this data much easier to read.