Liver Transplant

2-Time Cancer Survivor Launches Nationwide Football Event For Kids With Special Needs

Trenton Patch | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Liver Transplant, Nike, Boyd W. Arthurs Middle School, Football, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Gatorade, Victory Day, Cancer, Special Needs Children, Coaching, Lloyd Carr, Aaron Segedi, Impact News

When middle school teacher and varsity football coach Aaron Segedi, 36, hatched the idea for Victory Day in 2009, he had no idea he would be speaking ...

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Liver Donation, Break up, Led Author David Jedeikin to Wander the Rainbow

Simona Rabinovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self Publishing, Jordan, Liver Transplant, Self Discovery, Lgbt, Gay Travel, Eat Pray Love, New Zealand, Living Liver Donation, LGBT Travel, Brazil, Flashpacking, Solo Travel, Singapore, Peru, Travel Memoir, Cambodia, San Francisco, Ebooks, Tokyo, Dublin, Travel News

After donating part of his liver to his (now ex-) boyfriend, breaking up and feeling lost, David Jedeikin wrote about it all in his book, Wander the Rainbow.

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How Long Do You Have To Wait For A Liver Transplant? Depends On Where You Live

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Personal Health, Liver Transplants Waiting, Liver Transplant Lists, Liver Transplant Waiting Lists, Liver Transplant, Home News

WASHINGTON — Doctors dropped another bomb soon after telling Matthew Rosiello it was time for a liver transplant: The 21-year-old isn't likely t...

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Liver Transplant Tragedy Leads To Hospital Review

AOL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospitals, Liver Transplant, Health, Hospital Safety, Denver News

A Colorado hospital said it has suspended liver donations from people who are still alive following the death of a man who donated a chunk of his live...

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Search For Live Liver Donors Raises Medical, Ethical Questions

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liver Transplant, Cirrhosis, Living Donors, Organ Transplant, Organ Donation, Chicago, Good Samaritan Organ Donors, Illinois, Liver, Organ Donors, Chicago News

Medical advances in organ transplantation have extended lives that a few years ago would have been cut short. Yet public solicitation for organs raise...

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Scavenging for Organs: Why the Donor Famine Justifies A Radical Harvest

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Organ Donation, State Law, Norway, Iran, Liver, Legislation, Mandated Choice, Politics, Kidney Transplant, Courage, Ethics, National Kidney Foundation, Disability, Presumed Consent, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, State Legislatures, Illinois, Liver Transplant, Heart Transplant, Belgium, Kidney, Dale Risinger, Conservative, Pro-Life, Unos, France, Heart, Human Rights, Lung Transplant, Liberalism, Health, Great Britain, Republican, Hospitals, American Medical Association, Doctors, Spain, Healthcare, Politics News

18 Americans die every day while waiting for an organ transplant, yet the American political establishment has been unwilling to champion non-traditional methods of expanding the organ supply.

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Claire Riley, Transplant Recipient, Encourages Others To Become Organ Donors

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liver Transplant, Organ Donors, Ulcer Colitis, Claire Riley, Organ Transplant, Spare Clare, Organ Donation, Impact News

Claire Riley of Perth, Scotland, acknowledges that someone had to die for her to live, but says receiving an organ can give someone a new lease on lif...

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The Heath Insurance Dance

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Off Label Cancer Treatment, Los Angeles Times, Transplant, Liver Transplant, Cancer, Health Insurance, Health Care, Healthy Living News

Why -- when we are faced with the possibility of losing our life or the life of a loved one -- do we also have to fight with an insurance company which is there to take care of our medical needs in the first place?

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Steve Jobs Lives (or Is Not Dead, Apparently)

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Liver Transplant, Michael Wolff, Apple, Steve Jobs Health, Business News

It may be that many successful public companies are run by crazy buggers -- secretive, paranoid, and contrary to a fantastic degree. It may be that Steve Jobs is actually a breath of fresh air.

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Texting Helps Teens With Live Transplants Follow Medical Guidelines

Yahoo! News | Martha Kerr | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Liver Transplant, Medical Texting, Liver, Health, Texting, Teenagers, Teens, Healthy Living News

For teenagers who've had a liver transplant, text message reminders to take their medications reduce the risk of organ rejection. That finding com...

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