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• Cleveland Clinic Performs Total Artificial Heart to Dual Heart and Liver Transplant

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  SynCardia Systems Inc. announced that Cleveland Clinic has performed the world’s first Total Artificial Heart to dual heart and liver transplant. After living with the total artificial heart for 113 days, on May 1, 2009, Dr. Michael Zabell received the donor heart and liver during a 14-hour surgery involving two ...
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• Charles Tillman speaks about the Berlin Heart in Washington

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington DC, Oct 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The star cornerback for Chicago Bears Charles was invited to Washington DC to speak about the Berlin Heart on October 26th. His pretty baby daughter Tiana Tillman was tragically diagnosed with a rare heart disorder called cardiomyopathy, which is an enlargement of the heart that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Baby Fae – Remembering Heart Transplantation

  
  binggobinggo.com — Authority: 135
  Born with a disease called hypo plastic left heart syndrome Stephanie Fae Beau Clair is known as Baby Fae to the world at large needed a heart transplant. It’s not very long ago that the children born with heart. Leonard Bailey and surgeons at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital gave. On 26th October 1984, ...
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• UT Southwestern patient first in North Texas to receive newest-generation heart failure device

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
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• Baboon Heart Transplant Baby Fae’s Legacy

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  Twenty-five years ago today, one special little girl underwent an untested, foolhardy procedure in an attempt to save her life.  Born with a disease called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, Stephanie Fae Beauclair, known as Baby Fae to the world at large, needed a heart transplant.  Dr. Leonard Bailey and surgeons at ...
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• Baby Fae, the 25 year anniversary of a ground breaking procedure

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 583
  Dr. Leonard Bailey of Baby Fae fame pictured on the right It’s a special day for Dr. Leonard Bailey, 66, who gained international fame in 1984 after transplanting a baboon’s heart into an infant girl. Twenty-five years ago today, the eyes of the world were on a baby girl who needed a heart, Baby Fae. ...
  2 weeks ago

• H1N1 Flu Challenges Heart and Lung Transplants

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today The pandemic H1N1 flu poses special problems for people getting heart and lung transplants, according to an advisory from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. The pandemic virus "highlights unique aspects of transplant care that ...
  2 weeks ago

• 100 innings for Noah

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  Wendy and Dan Passero, right, listen as Andy Yazwinski talks about his grandson Noah Passero during Saturdays Festival of Softball at the Cobbs Hill Park softball fields. The 100 inning fund raising event was played in honor of eight year old Noah who passed away on April 13, 2008 while waiting for a heart transplant. ...
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• Good arises from personal tragedy

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  Life after death By Clara Ho, Sun Media - Edmonton Sun Brooke Kolodychuks world came crashing down nine years ago when she and her family made the difficult decision of taking son Sean off life-support after he suffered a massive brain injury. But she said she seeks comfort knowing his organs and tissue ...
  3 weeks ago

• Derek Jeter’s Namesake Recovering from Heart Transplant

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 583
  While baseball star Derek Jeter battled for baseball titles last week, his namesake, little Jeter Villacis, battled for life as he underwent risky heart transplant surgery. The New York Yankees captain had a message for 16-month old little Jeter and his famiily, “Keep battling, first and foremost.”  Derek Jeter ...
  3 weeks ago

• The vexed issue of transplanting donor organs

  
  The Ballad of Billy The Kidney — Authority: 106
  Local media has this week reported that Australian scientists have developed an improvement in the solution in which donor hearts are transported – making a donor heart viable for up to 14 hours, as against the current situation of 5 or so hours. The solution also apparently makes the organ generally more viable ...
  3 weeks ago

• He’s Living for Eden

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 425
  First, Paul Cardall is a very talented musician. He can literally make a keyboard do things it was never designed to do, and it all looks effortless and sounds wonderful. But I wonder if he didn’t miss his true calling. Paul was asked to speak to the organizers of the Children’s Miracle Network (Yeah, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Short Cuts

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  Robert Altman: The Oral Biography By Mitchell Zuckoff (Knopf, 592 pp., $35) Here is your exam question: who is the last American movie director who made thirty-nine films but never won the Oscar for best director? Name the film by that director that cost the most money, and name the film of his that ...
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• Dr. Frists Prescription

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Bill Frist, the heart transplant surgeon turned senator, didnt always distinguish himself as a man of principle when serving as Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. Yes, that was him diagnosing Terry Schiavos medical condition from the close proximity of the Senate floor. But, like so many politicians, Frist was a ...
  5 weeks ago

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