Wells woman calls her liver transplant 'a total miracle' 
Seacoastonline.com
Mischa DeMuth Winters says goodbye to his wife, Katie, as the Massachusetts General Hospital transplant team calls him in for surgery. He donated 60 percent of his liver to his mother, Jodi DeMuth, at left.Deb Cram photo By Jennifer Feals WELLS, ...
Wells mom recovering after liver transplant York County Coast Star

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North Branford man awaits new liver (video) 
New Haven Register
Sansone tries to stay upbeat but is in desperate need of a liver transplant. From his bed on the ninth floor of the hospital, Sansone chuckles that his life is ?not the best. I've been in the hospital about eight weeks. I want to see my daughter, ...

 

Ottawa comedian seeks liver transplant 
CTV.ca
Comedian Mike MacDonald is looking for donations to help him get a liver transplant May 16, 2012. Mike MacDonald spent his life making lives a little brighter with his comedy. Now, he is asking his fans to return the favour.
Mike MacDonald, Ottawa stand-up comic, needs liver transplant OMG! Canada (blog)
Ottawa comedian's kidneys, liver shut down CBC.ca
After Contracting Hepatitis C in LA, Comedian Fights for His Life in Canada mediabistro.com
Toronto.com 
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Obesity, sedentary lifestyle taking a toll on liver 
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA With unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyle on the rise among Bangaloreans, they no longer are strangers to liver diseases. Dr Sanjay Govil, liver transplant surgeon, HCG in an interaction ...

 

Where liver surgery won't give you a heart attack 
Hindustan Times
While a liver transplant at a private hospital can leave you poorer by Rs.20 lakh, the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) offers you the same procedure at half the cost. The only government hospital doing live donor liver transplants in ...

 

Using a DMV Wait to Enroll Organ Donors 
New York Times (blog)
As a surgeon specializing in liver transplants, I've spent more time than most people thinking about that question. But on that particular afternoon, after a long wait on hard benches in a spartan room with a dozen others gazing glassy-eyed into space, ...

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Steve Jobs' liver transplant helped inspire Facebook organ donor program 
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff A liver transplant that extended the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs by years helped to inspire a new organ donor program on the social networking site Facebook. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview ...
Facebook plan to add organ donor status raises privacy concerns Detroit Free Press
Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool ABC News (blog)
Facebook users can add organ donor status Washington Post
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Liver transplants on nights and weekends as safe as any other time 
Los Angeles Times
Dr. A. Sidney Barritt IV of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues decided to check the safety records of liver transplants. Using a database of the United Network of Organ Sharing, they identified 94768 adult liver ...
Time, Day of Transplant Procedures Does Not Change Odds of Survival Becker's Hospital Review

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Teen Receives Life-Saving Rare Heart-Liver Transplant at Children's Hospital ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
James Tweddell, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon, performed the heart transplantation. David Cronin, MD, PhD, FACS, abdominal transplant surgeon, performed the liver transplantation. This is the first heart-liver transplant performed on a child, ...
Heart-liver transplant performed at Children's Hospital Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chicago boy is first pediatric heart-liver transplant in Wisconsin The Oshkosh Northwestern
Teen heads home after Wisconsin's first pediatric heart-liver transplant WHBL Sheboygan
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Pinellas County Offers Free Hepatits A, B and C Testing May 18 
Patch.com
The most common types are Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Viral hepatitis is the leading cause of liver cancer and the most common reason for liver transplantation. An estimated 4.4 million Americans are living with chronic hepatitis; ...
The struggle against Hepatitis C Fox News
Thomas Jefferson U. Hospital opens hepatitis C center Philadelphia Business Journal (blog)
Most Baby Boomers Never Tested for Hepatitis C, Despite Being Most at Risk PR Newswire (press release)

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