The History Of Declaring DeathHuffington Post (blog)Here in the present, compromised by the needs of organ transplantation and other factors, we embrace the lowest standard for death in history: brain death. Brain-dead people are still breathing (with …
Sunshine Heart Receives Health Canada Approval to Modify Its Ongoing … – MarketWatch (press release)
Sunshine Heart Receives Health Canada Approval to Modify Its Ongoing …MarketWatch (press release)SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and EDEN PRAIRIE, MN, Jun 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Sunshine Heart, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSH) (asx:SHC), a global medical device comp…
Cystic Fibrosis: For First Time, No Longer a Kids' Disease
Patients Live Longer, But Their Needs Are Often Not Met
DeAngelo Williams Joins Samaritan's Feet Event
Two NFL players from the Carolina Panthers are scheduled to be in Memphis Friday, June 8, to help provide 500 kids with new shoes and socks. Former Un…
St. Jude, Le Bonheur Ranked Among Best
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis were both named to U.S. News & World Report’…
Heart box offers better transplant chance
WA doctors have become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to use breakthrough technology dubbed "heart in a box" that allows donor hearts to beat for hours outside the body.
Study: More Hispanics die waiting for a heart transplant
Hispanic patients in need of a heart transplant are 50 percent more likely to die before they get one than white patients
Gravely ill man who lost sister in kidney op to get a new kidney – New York Post
New York PostGravely ill man who lost sister in kidney op to get a new kidneyNew York PostGravely ill Bronx resident Roberto Medina expects to undergo kidney transplant surgery tonight, two weeks after his sister Yolanda Medina died on the operating …..
Jury awards $2.35M to family of Columbia Presbyterian transplant victim
This hospital had no heart — but the jury sure did! A prestigious Manhattan hospital got smacked by a Queens jury, which awarded $2.35 million to the family of hard-working dad of three Ronald Bello, who died in agony shortly after he received a disea…
Successful pregnancies possible for women following liver transplantation – Science Codex
Successful pregnancies possible for women following liver transplantationScience CodexThe study appearing in the June issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Di…