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The man living with someone else’s heart
gulfnews.com “His body and his heart have become one,” says Steven Boyce, surgical director of the heart failure and heart transplantation program at MedStar Heart Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where Cook’s transplant took place on February 1, 1989. |
Appeal for helpFinancial Express BangladeshMr Anwar was advised to go for liver transplantation in India which would cost him about Tk 5.0 million. As the single earning person of the family, he is unable to bear this huge cost. Now, he is appealing to…
Diabetes cause of kidney damage: Dr SahariahAssam TribuneAs a successful physician he was associated with the first successful renal transplantation at PGI, Chandigarh in 1973. Since then Dr Sahariah has completely devoted his medical career for the de…
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Battle for son’s ‘stolen heart’
SunLive In 2005, John was also told by the National Donor Co-ordination Office in Auckland that his son’s death was before heart transplantation began in New Zealand, and therefore families were not officially required to give consent. The rules for … |
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Wiping out Hepatitis C
WWSB ABC 7 “After going through all of this painful process of treatment, the odds were basically against them that they would not respond,” Nizar Zein, MD, Chief of Hepatology and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic, told Ivanhoe. Now … |
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International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Unveils Full Speaker List
PR Web (press release) Dr. Stevenson, who is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak at this year’s event on the subject of “Trimming Heart Transplantation in the VAD Era.” Stevenson’s investigative focus is on the elucidation of principles for the … |
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International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Unveils Full Speaker List
DigitalJournal.com Dr. Stevenson, who is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak at this year’s event on the subject of “Trimming Heart Transplantation in the VAD Era.” Stevenson’s investigative focus is on the elucidation of principles for the … |
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Living Liver Donor Consent Form Needs Standardization
Monthly Prescribing Reference (HealthDay News) — Standardization of living liver donor evaluation consent forms is needed, according to a study published online February 25 in Liver Transplantation. Carrie Thiessen, from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and colleagues … |
What is a hepatologist?HealioHepatitis impacts millions of people worldwide and has been associated with a number of poor outcomes such as liver cancer and liver transplantation. Particularly, hepatitis B and hepatitis C frequently cause liver cancers….
New York Times (blog)The Diminishing Returns of Modern MedicineNew York Times (blog)This golden period has witnessed a hailstorm of life-prolonging advances, including implantable pacemakers, coronary bypass surgery and heart transplantation. Cardiovas…