Raw Story (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Heart attack patients waiting for a transplant are to undergo a revolutionary new therapy which should see them avoid having to undergo the operation altogether...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Leanne Nicholson has had two heart transplants in six years.
The Business First of Buffalo (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
An elephant never forgets, and neither does attorney John Feroleto, who recalled a connection between his nephew, Buffalo Common Council member Michael LoCurto, and Marcena Lozano, both Buffalo residents who received heart transplants.
A Hearty Life (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Thoratec Corp. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to use its HeartMate II heart pump to help advanced-stage heart failure patients survive while awaiting heart transplants. Until now some heart transplant recipients were not able to receive pumps due to size and gender. The hopes for the new pump is it's ease of [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Allegheny General Hospital announced today it is among the first hospitals in the country to receive federal approval to implant ventricular assist devices in patients who are poor candidates for heart transplants.
Mayo Clinic (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Mayo Clinic is among two national medical institutions honored because 100 percent of its patients who received the artificial heart were "bridged" to human heart transplants.
The East Bay Business Times (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Thoratec Corp. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to use its HeartMate II heart pump to help advanced-stage heart failure patients survive while awaiting heart transplants. (THOR)
The Orlando Business Journal (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Orlando Regional Healthcare and Florida Hospital both announced plans this week to seek state permission to perform heart transplants.
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Heart transplants are back. Now if they could just do brain transplants we could start queuing up legislators.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
The success of Utah's four-hospital collaborative heart transplant program stretches from Damon Draheim, who got a second chance at life three weeks ago at Intermountain Medical Center, back 23 years to Tony Shepard, whose fresh start began March 8, 1985, at University Hospital.
End Times Prophecy News (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
The progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures. So it has proved with heart transplants, which have become almost routine in hospitals around the world. Yet every once in a while a story emerges which should cause us all to sit up and take note that there is nothing "routine" or "commonplace"...
BlogIssues.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Technorati Tags: heart,transplants,personality change,operations,death I can’t help but wonder every time I read about transplants and how people suddenly adapt to the donors behaviour and character traits. It is astonishing and quite creepy at the same time. Could it be that elements of one’s character or perhaps even the soul, are transplanted with the organ?...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The parents of the first twins to have heart transplants spoke yesterday of their joy at the girls' survival.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
NEW DELHI: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has been given registration for performing heart transplants by the Director General Health Services (DGHS). A high-level team of eminent cardiac surgeons and cardiologists inspected the hospital ...
cbs4denver.com: Water Cooler (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
A teen who received two heart transplants as a child has died after his car ran off Colorado 119 and struck an embankment and a large rock. The father of Monarch High School graduate Darin Weidert said the 17-year-old died of a heart attack Friday while driving in Boulder Canyon.
