Our mood swingsThe Asian Agewarbled young India last April, in sympathy with the heart-broken Tamil underclass lad of the soup song. It has now come to light that even the not-so-young and not-so-poor urban India was singing its own elegy at the same t…
Alaska man with artificial heart gets transplant
An Alaska man underwent a successful heart transplant after living for months with a battery-powered artificial heart while awaiting the surgery in Seattle.
Facebook Organ Donation Scheme Fizzles – InformationWeek
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Older Americans With Advanced Heart Failure Get New Lease On Life – Yumanewsnow
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AK man with artificial heart gets transplant
An Alaska man who had been living with a battery-powered artificial heart underwent a successful heart transplant in Seattle.
Katy Hayes, Texas Mom Who Lost Limbs To Flesh-Eating Bacteria, Will Get First U.S. Double-Arm Transplant
By Ros Krasny BOSTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) – A Texas woman who lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria has been approved for a double arm transplant at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in what will be the first such procedure performed…
Single-Port Kidney Removal Through The Belly Button Boosts Living-Donor … – Sacramento Bee
Private MDSingle-Port Kidney Removal Through The Belly Button Boosts Living-Donor …Sacramento BeeIn 2003, UMMC urologist Michael W. Phelan, M.D., a co-author of this Annals of Surgery paper, published a study on the advances in laparoscopic nephrecto…
Mild asthmatics may not need daily steroid use according to a new study – New York Daily News
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Local man needs transplant
Contributed by National Foundation for Transplants (NFT) In 2009, Ken Stevenson, 48, began having issues with his blood pressure, and his health worsened until he was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. He has also developed pulmonary fibrosis, and…