Willis youth football program to highlight LifeGift organ donations
Every day, 18 people across America die waiting for a transplant – a needless human tragedy that could be avoided through organ donation.
Scituate teen receives life-saving lung transplant
Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Michaud has been facing the battle of his life over the past five weeks. As a cystic fibrosis patient, Jonathan has endured many hospital stays and health issues in his young life.
ESCONDIDO: Fundraiser for boy with rare disease 10 days away
A fundraiser to help pay for transplant surgery for an Escondido boy is less than two weeks away, and organizers have again reduced the price after selling a little more than half the tickets to the event.
DOH chief 1st Pinoy to get US college of surgeons top award
Health Secretary Enrique Ona is set to receive this week the Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the highest honor the institution can confer to any surgeon. The post DOH chief 1st Pinoy to get US college of surgeons top awar…
Ona Receives Honorary Award
MANILA, Philippines – Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Enrique T. Ona is the first Filipino surgeon to be named an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) during the 98th Clinical Congress, which is being held in Chicago, Illinois…
Tifton native needs help with transplants
A local man who needs a kidney and pancreas transplant is asking for the community’s help. Tifton native Anthony Barron, 55, has been on dialysis for a little over a year now. He said he does the peritoneal dialysis, which is a home dialysis choice f…
'Miracle' baby doing well after transplants
Jaxon Brown, the "miracle" baby who weighed only a pound and a half at birth, got a triple transplant on Thursday. Surgeons at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington replaced Jaxon's damaged liver, bowel and pancreas with donated or…
Regina woman who received organ transplant remembers emotional meeting with donor's family
Trish Craven plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her kidney and pancreas transplants on Saturday – a celebration of life made possible by an organ donor and one of several incredible occurrences the Regina woman has experienced over the past dec…
Cedars-Sinai Liver Transplant Program Earns Los Angeles County's Highest One-Year Success Rate
In 2011, 90 percent of Cedars-Sinai liver transplant patients reached the one-year post-surgery milestone, giving the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center the highest one-year liver transplant survival rate in Los Angeles County.The data also s…
Berkeley Research Group Announces Two New Appointments to Healthcare Special Advisory Board
Berkeley Research Group, a leading global expert services and consulting firm, has appointed two distinguished physicians to its Healthcare Special Advisory Board, which comprises expert physician leaders …