Organ donation 'was what Jaime would have wanted'Chronicle-TelegramDoctors determined brain death. No man ever wants to say goodbye to his daughter, but Charles Fortney said he did so knowing that even in death his daughter helped so many. Soon…
While we're on the topic of transplantsDemocratic UndergroundThey now rely on a "brain-death" definition for actual death, instead of the cardiac-pulmonary definition, and now they can keep "cadavers" alive for months before har…
CBS NewsDick Cheney And The Very Expensive DiseaseForbesFormer Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from a heart transplant to treat end-stage heart failure — an often misunderstood disease that is one of the most costly health problems in Americ…
Rituximab May Be Best Choice After Anti-TNF Fail in RAMedscapeMarch 24, 2012 — Patients whose rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is inadequately controlled with a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor might be well advised to switch to rituximab (RTX), rather…
Family Of 15-Year-Old Organ Donor Meets RecipientNews On 6Jim Haney, holding a photo of organ donor Alisha Girdner, who died when she was 15. Haney received Girdner's heart. Alisha Girdner's family meets the 64-year-old man who received her hea…
New York TimesFor Cheney, 71, New Heart Ends 20-Month WaitNew York TimesAs recently as 2006, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation said that while patients recommended for a heart transplant should generally be 70 or under, “ca…
Cheney undergoes heart transplant surgeryMyFox PhoenixFormer GOP Vice PresidentDick Cheney is recovering from heart transplant surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia, a spokeswoman said Saturday evening. In 2010, Cheney had a left ventr…
ABC News (blog)Cheney Recovering After Heart Transplant Surgery in VirginiaBloombergFormer Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating in a Virginia hospital after undergoing heart transplant surgery yesterday, a spokeswoman said. Cheney was in the inte…
ABC News (blog)Cheney undergoes heart transplant surgeryFox NewsFormer GOP Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from heart transplant surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia, a spokeswoman said Saturday evening. In 2010, Cheney had a…
Palm Beach Daily NewsZachary Potter's tribute to dad behind Leukemia & Lymphoma Society questPalm Beach Daily NewsThat therapy adds rituximab, a monoclonal antibody, to an established regimen of four chemotherapy drugs. “The treatments that w…