Thursday, April 24, 2003
Doctor donates kidney to patient
Susan Hou went to medical school with a patient in kidney failure, back in the days before federal funding was available in the United States for dialysis. In addition to his kidney failure, he was concerned with finances; his pocketbook, already very lean from medical-school expenses, would be... Sign in to see full entry.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003
LifeSharers
LifeSharers is a website describing a method of organ allocation in the private sector. I got the link through a contact in the Libertarian party, and I was also led to a story about Life Sharers in a New Orleans newspaper. This story indicated that UNOS, the federally-funded organization which... Sign in to see full entry.
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Saturday, April 5, 2003
Time to take the gloves off
The old cliche refers to people fighting "with gloves off" - bare-fisted. This is apparently supposed to indicate that those doing the fighting are being especially aggressive in the fight. This is exactly what I plan on doing here - fighting aggressively for what I know to be right, without having... Sign in to see full entry.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Dillon Sanders update - Loma Linda University issues press release
Loma Linda University reports that Dillon Sanders is doing well after his heart transplantation surgery. A press release detailing his condition can be read at this link. You can also go to that same link and find out how to contact little Dillon's family, through Loma Linda Medical Center. Sign in to see full entry.
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Thursday, March 13, 2003
Dillon Sellers transplanted
It's been on the news all morning that Dillon Sellers - whose dad is in the US Marine Corps, on active duty - has gotten his heart transplant at Loma Linda University Medical Center. (The Loma Linda link is to a press release issued while Dillon was still on the waiting list.) Although little Dillon... Sign in to see full entry.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Another botched transplant
Yahoo and Associated Press report that the parents of a 17-month-old toddler are suing two of Texas' most esteemed health care institutions - Baylor and Children's Medical Center - for another case of getting an organ with the wrong type into the 17-month-old recipient. The error was not discovered... Sign in to see full entry.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Mother Gives Son 'Second Chance' in Rare Living-donor Transplant
This is a press release from the University of Illinois' Chicago medical-center campus. Transplant procedures have become so routine that this sort of surgery no longer attracts the headlines of the first heart transplant in 1967. In a rare living-donor transplant, a four-year-old from West Chicago,... Sign in to see full entry.
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Monday, March 10, 2003
Sharp Jump Seen for Drug-Resistant Germs
Another Yahoo story generated this time by AP. It's relevant to transplantation because some transplant patients are as susceptible as AIDS and chemotherapy patients to these drug-resistant bugs. WASHINGTON - The United States is seeing a jump in drug-resistant germs and, researchers warn, strains... Sign in to see full entry.
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Forearm-hand transplant in Europe
Reuters has a story in its archive about a Viennese man who received a forearm-hand transplant recently. He is doing well, and is receiving physical therapy to help his new arm regain functioning. Sign in to see full entry.
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Sunday, March 9, 2003
Boy, ain't that the truth!
You might want to brush up on your current medical practice - this article from Reuters states, accurately, that those of us who speak up will catch and prevent more medical errors than those of us who are absolutely not knowledgeable about matters medical. What makes a lot of medical errors go... Sign in to see full entry.
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