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BEST HOSPITALS 2014 IS NOW AVAILABLE! Are you or a family member facing serious illness or complex surgery? When the stakes are high, you want the very best care you can get. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals 2013" can guide you to the top-ranked medical centers for both adults and children in specialties from cancer and heart problems to respiratory disorders and orthopedics. Plus, the highest ranked medical centers in your city, medicine's front lines: step inside the operating room for a heart transplant, the latest advances in the battle against autism, how to be a proactive patient, the coming revolution in cancer treatment, best diets: should you give up meat?, & preventing or delaying Alzheimer's disease.