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    Feb 17, 2010 |Story| Health Portal

  1. The Basics of Heart Transplant Surgery

    According to the American Heart Association (www.americanheart.org), 2,163 heart transplants were performed in the U.S. in 2008, but thousands more people could have benefited from a heart transplant if more donated hearts were available.
    HealthKey.com contributor
    According to the American Heart Association (www.americanheart.org), 2,163 heart transplants were performed in the U.S. in 2008, but thousands more people could have benefited from a heart transplant if more donated hearts were available. Heart...

    Tags: X-rays, Immune System, Charity, Heart Disease, Health

    2. Jul 15, 2010 |Story| KIAH-LTV

  2. Volunteer Helps Heart Transplant Patients With Shared Experience

    There are more than 108,000 Americans waiting for an organ transplant. Every day that number goes up, as the demand constantly outweighs the supply.
    KIAH
    There are more than 108,000 Americans waiting for an organ transplant. Every day that number goes up, as the demand constantly outweighs the supply. Two decades ago, Randy Creech was one of those patients waiting for a life saving organ. "The body is...

    Tags: Social Issues, Family, Texas, Heart and Circulatory System, Hospitals and Clinics

    3. Jul 16, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Cheney May Continue to Rely on Heart Device

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, battling a lifetime of cardiac disease, has not decided whether to seek a heart transplant but could use a device surgically inserted into his chest last week as permanent therapy for his condition, according to a source close to the Cheney family and to heart surgeons familiar with the treatment.
    Tribune Newspapers
    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, battling a lifetime of cardiac disease, has not decided whether to seek a heart transplant but could use a device surgically inserted into his chest last week as permanent therapy for his condition, according to a source...

    Tags: Dick Cheney, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Health and Medical Professionals, Plastic Surgeons, Los Angeles

    4. May 18, 2010 |Story| Health Portal

  4. Heart Pump Offers Lifesaving Technology

    Arthur Plowden has become a pioneering patient for a new kind of heart pump that his doctors say offers lifesaving technology for people running low on options.
    McClatchy Tribune
    Arthur Plowden has become a pioneering patient for a new kind of heart pump that his doctors say offers lifesaving technology for people running low on options. Doctors at Stony Brook University Medical Center recently attached to Plowden's heart a...

    Tags: Entertainment, California, Health, Death, Social Issues

    5. Jul 30, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Dr. Margaret Billingham dies at 78; Stanford heart pathologist

    Dr. Margaret Billingham, a Stanford University pathologist who developed criteria by which surgeons could tell if a transplanted heart was thriving or being rejected, died of kidney cancer July 14 at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif....

    Tags: Science and Technology, Nevada, Health, Death, Heads of State

    6. Aug 17, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. PASSINGS: Fred Kinne, Tony Huesman, Kenneth H. Bacon

    <b>Fred Kinne</b>
    Fred Kinne Plane crash work helped win Pulitzer Fred Kinne, 93, a veteran editor who helped a San Diego newspaper win the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of a 1978 plane crash, died Aug. 9 at a nursing center in La Mesa, his family said. He had suffered...

    Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, U.S. Army, Newspapers, Journalism, Health and Safety at School

    7. Mar 23, 2010 | Orlando Sentinel

  7. Heart-transplant pro Erik Compton speaks at Winter Park CC

    The Downswing Golf Blog» Orlando Sentinel – The Downswing Golf Blog
    If you have a free evening and want to hear an inspirational story, check out Erik Compton's appearance at Winter Park Country Club tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. Compton, a former Nationwide Tour pro now playing on a second transplanted heart, has a...
    8. Apr 22, 2010 | Orlando Sentinel

  8. High Five: Softball team honors heart patient, a local story goes national and a huge tennis rematch

    Central Florida Varsity the Blog» Orlando Sentinel – Central Florida Varsity the Blog
    Happy Thursday. In today's Varsity High Five we update a special story involving a heart transplant patient, detail some national buzz for a local pitcher and more. 1. Pine Castle softball team meets with heart transplant survivor. We begin with an update...
    9. Feb 22, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. A New Heart for Baby Nick

    Nick was lying in his mother's arms when the cellphone rang. She figured it was just another routine call. "Hi, doctor," she said, joking. "You've been avoiding us."
    Times Staff Writer
    Nick was lying in his mother's arms when the cellphone rang. She figured it was just another routine call. "Hi, doctor," she said, joking. "You've been avoiding us." "Well, I don't have to avoid you any longer," Dr. Juan Alejos replied. "We have a heart....

    Tags: Family, Health and Medical Professionals, Plastic Surgeons, Fingers, Arizona

    10. Jan 22, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. For Ailing Twins' Parents, Hope Vies With Anguish

    She steered with one knee, reached into the back seat and stroked the tears from her little boy's cheek. Drivers honked and shouted behind their rolled-up windows. One gave her the single-finger salute. She hardly noticed. She had something more important...

    Tags: Immanuel Kant, Family, Children, Religious Festivals, Hamburgers

    11. Jun 29, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. 20% of U.S. Transplant Centers Are Found to Be Substandard

    About a fifth of federally funded transplant programs fail to meet the government's minimum standards for patient survival or perform too few operations to ensure competency, a Los Angeles Times investigation has found.
    Times Staff Writers
    About a fifth of federally funded transplant programs fail to meet the government's minimum standards for patient survival or perform too few operations to ensure competency, a Los Angeles Times investigation has found. The U.S. Centers for Medicare...

    Tags: Connecticut, Liver Transplants, Medicaid, Lungs and Airways, Medicare

    12. Nov 20, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Adrian Kantrowitz dies at 90; surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant

    Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the pioneering cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first U.S. heart transplant, developed a balloon-pumping device that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and developed mechanical heart-assist devices, died of heart failure Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 90.
    Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the pioneering cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first U.S. heart transplant, developed a balloon-pumping device that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and developed mechanical heart-assist devices, died of heart...

    Tags: New York University, Liver Disease, Research, U.S. Army, Charity

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