The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
OPINION/ANALYSIS: A liberal mistrusts lessons bought with experience. For him, theory is all. He's the only man who would sit down on a red-hot stove twice. That makes well-meaning Democrats marks for shysters selling health-care "reform," global warming and appeasement of radical Islamists. We're not supposed to ask why so many Canadians, pleased and proud of their cradle-to-grave nanny...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Adult stem cells may help repair hearts damaged by heart attack -- in part by becoming heart cells themselves.<p/> That was the finding of a new study, released Monday, that points to a promising new treatment for heart attack patients that could reduce mortality and lessen the need for heart transplants. Adult stem cells also could aid in healing damaged livers, kidneys, pancreases and other...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
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Live Science (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Cigarette smoke exposure before a heart transplant accelerates the death of the heart.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The University of Southern California (USC) University Hospital received a Heart Transplant Excellence Award from the independent healthcare ratings organization Health Grades, ranking among the top one percent of hospitals in the U.S. that perform heart transplants. The top-rated hospitals for organ transplantation based on patient outcomes were identified for the first time by HealthGrades and are...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PGxHealth, a division of Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDA), today announced the launch of its genetic test for familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy, an inherited heart disease which is the leading cause of heart transplants and a possible cause of sudden cardiac death. The introduction of the FAMILION® DCM Test at the 2009 American Heart Association meeting, November...
TIME (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Twenty-five years after Baby Fae's death following the world's first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure
Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A by-product of heart transplants - can memories and preferences be stored in cells? This is another post on the topic and there have been many other such stories in the past. I can remember reading about a heart recipient, a construction worker, who started to listen to classical music and buy classical albums which he had no liking for previously. It turned out that he received the heart of a musician...
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Erik Compton, the American golfer with two heart transplants, has received another exemption into the final US PGA Tour tournament in Florida next week.
ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Erik Compton, the golfer with two heart transplants, has received another exemption into the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney next week.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Erik Compton, the golfer with two heart transplants, has received another exemption into the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney next week.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- Erik Compton, the golfer with two heart transplants, has received another exemption into the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney next week.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Medicare beneficiaries can once again receive heart transplants at Sacramento's Sutter Medical Center, the region's only hospital that performs the procedure. Sutter never stopped performing heart transplants, but after Feb. 20 this year the hospital could not provide transplants to Medicare patients, said Dr. John Chin, Sutter's heart transplant program director. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Underdog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
J. D. Evans , Heart - Transplant ~ Vanderbilt University Hospital... by: Don Jones, Htx.#189-Vandy I have just talked with our Brother and fellow Heart-Transplant patient, J. D. Evans on the phone, at Vanderbilt ! I`m sorry to report that J.D. is not doing as well as he would like too ! It seems that as with most Heart Transplants, he`s having a after transplant problem of sorts. J.D. has lost his...
Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Grayson is a fresh voice I enjoy hearing. I especially agree with Grayson's point that we need to do something about 120 needless deaths every day. If 120 people died in a plane crash each day for a week, we'd take action and revamp the aviation system. So why do we allow 120 people die each day due to lack of health insurance? I'm not suggesting that I'm happy with the proposals that I've heard so...
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julieadam | 08/27/2009
In the United States, nearly 4,000 people wait for heart transplants on a daily basis. However, only a fraction of those actually receive a heart. Donors must be matched by blood type, medical urgency, size of the donor heart, and may wait for months or even years for a suitable heart donor. In the United States, heart transplant surgery can cost upwards of $150,000. While this seems daunting, medical...
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