January 14, 2022

‘Dude’ spreading the love of a new heart

ANGOLA, INDIANA — After a five-year battle with his failing heart, Fremont native Tracy “Dude” Gary received a heart transplant in 2018 that literally beat the life back into his

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January 7, 2022

HIV+ Patients Get Good Outcomes After Kidney or Liver Transplant

Liver or kidney transplant recipients who are HIV-positive show outcomes that are similar to those without HIV at 15-years post-transplant, in new research that represents some of the longest follow-up

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January 7, 2022

Marcia R. Cohen, one of the world’s oldest liver transplant recipients, dies at 94

She was 74 when she received a liver transplant in March 2002 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and she thrilled everyone by thriving over the last two

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January 7, 2022

Number of elderly on U.S. liver transplant list rising

(HealthDay)—The proportion of U.S. elderly patients in need of liver transplant (LT) is sharply increasing, according to a study presented at The Liver Meeting, the annual meeting of the American

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January 4, 2022

Greenwood family learns more about life following transplant ordeal | Anniston

Things could always be worse. In early November, that’s the thought that Cameron Greenwood had as he passed through the hallways of Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. His own son,

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January 4, 2022

Girl who consumed rat poison saved without liver transplant

Doctors at Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, have saved a teenager from death without the need for a liver transplant after the 16-year-old approached them a week after accidentally consuming

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January 4, 2022

Moran, Blunt denounce ‘disgusting’ collusion, bias in national liver transplant policy • Missouri Independent

TOPEKA — U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Roy Blunt of Missouri expressed outrage at evidence of bias in the United Network for Organ Sharing’s policy of distributing livers

December 28, 2021

College athlete travels across the country for liver transplant at Pittsburgh’s UPMC

Taylor Dockins cried as she listened to UPMC chief of transplantation Dr. Abhi Humar discuss her medical journey. Humar talked about her perseverance for five years fighting cancer and then learning

December 28, 2021

Sister and brother closer than ever after liver transplant | News, Sports, Jobs

Austin Westmeyer and his younger sister, Samantha Westmeyer, have always been close but now they have an even tighter bond. On April 21, Samantha donated 69 percent of her liver to

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December 24, 2021

PAKISTAN: Govt set to launch free liver transplant services

PESHAWAR: The residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will start getting free liver transplant services under Sehat Sahulat Programme at three private hospitals of the country within a month. “We have selected three

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