Saturday, April 5, 2003Time to take the gloves offThe 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.posted by kidnykid at 6:59 AM Comments (0) (link) Wednesday, March 19, 2003Dillon Sanders update - Loma Linda University issues press releaseLoma 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.posted by kidnykid at 12:09 PM Comments (0) (link) Thursday, March 13, 2003Dillon Sellers transplantedIt'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.posted by kidnykid at 7:14 AM Comments (0) (link) Wednesday, March 12, 2003Another botched transplantYahoo 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.posted by kidnykid at 1:31 PM Comments (0) (link) Tuesday, March 11, 2003Mother Gives Son 'Second Chance' in Rare Living-donor TransplantThis 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.posted by kidnykid at 7:33 AM Comments (0) (link) Monday, March 10, 2003Sharp Jump Seen for Drug-Resistant GermsAnother 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.posted by kidnykid at 7:49 AM Comments (0) (link) Forearm-hand transplant in EuropeReuters 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.posted by kidnykid at 7:29 AM Comments (0) (link) Sunday, March 9, 2003Boy, 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.posted by kidnykid at 5:04 PM Comments (0) (link) The Mayo Clinic and Baxter beam themselves into a Brave New WorldThis tidbit came from PR Newswire and was barely noticed by the mainstream media. The animal-rights activists among you would likely be horrified - wonder where PETA was the other day when this press release came out? They're usually the first people out there protesting this stuff. Mayo Clinic to... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 3:05 PM Comments (0) (link) Thursday, March 6, 2003Meaty mentors, indeed!I want to veer "off topic" for a moment and recommend that you read this blog, about how we tend to let celebrities dominate the media spotlight. Frankly, in the field of transplantation, the resentment of celebrity has boiled over much earlier than it has in any other field; people resented former... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 5:24 PM Comments (0) (link) |
About this BlogThis was originally intended to be written during Organ Donor Awareness Week only, but I felt like writing about transplant-related issues at other times of the year.
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