For NPR's feature "First Mention," we find that we first heard about Dr. Ben Carson on July 5, 1987, after he successfully completed a radical brain surgery on child patients.

He was a pioneer in hemispherectomy, ... what you might not know about him Ben Carson Sr. is the subject of a made-for-TV movie, “Gifted Hands,” starring Cuba Gooding Jr.

At that time, in the 1980s, Carson and his colleagues were the one team of doctors in the United States performing the procedure, known as a hemispherectomy, where the damaged part of the brain is ...

5 Things You Should Know About Ben Carson : It's All Politics The pediatric neurosurgeon, ... He is also credited with the revival of a medical procedure known as a hemispherectomy, ...

As a surgeon, Ben Carson was praised for his dedication, ... Carson removed half of the brain of Maranda Francisco, a 4-year-old girl with severe epilepsy, reviving the hemispherectomy, ...

Carson performed hemispherectomy on him in the late 1990s. Pensacola woman credits Ben Carson for saving her son's life. News Sports Play Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

WJZ was there as world-renowned physician Dr. Ben Carson performed a hemispherectomy, removing half of her diseased brain. The surgery was a success. We followed Jessie's recovery--remarkable then ...

Dr. Ben Carson entered the first GOP presidential debate on Thursday right in the middle as the fifth of 10 candidates. ... He was a pioneer in hemispherectomy operations, ...

First attempted by Johns Hopkins surgeon Walter Dandy, M.D., in the late 1920s, the operation was reintroduced at Hopkins in 1968 and refined in the mid-1980s by Benjamin S. Carson, M.D., director ...