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Dick Cheney's new heart awakens Times' letter writers
Opinion L.A.Former Vice President Dick Cheney undergoes a heart transplant operation; let the one-liners begin!... -
Fatal flight of heart transplant team began normally, NTSB says
Nation NowWhat began as a flight of medical mercy turned into a tragedy without warning, according to federal investigators probing the recent Florida crash of a helicopter carrying a heart transplant team.... -
Humana Challenge: Double heart transplant recipient on leaderboard
Sports NowHeart transplant patient Erik Compton on leaderboard at Humana Challenge; Phil Mickelson tied for 25th.... -
Cardiac rehab is underused path to recovery
The first week after her heart transplant, Eileen Ryan was a wreck. Overcome by weakness, she couldn't stand or walk. Going home from the hospital, she had to rely on a wheelchair.
That was in December 2008. By spring, Ryan was steadily regaining...Tags: Adults, Heart and Circulatory System, Duke University, Newspaper and Magazine, Diseases and Illnesses
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Dr. Margaret Billingham dies at 78; Stanford heart pathologist
Dr. Margaret Billingham, a Stanford University pathologist who developed criteria by which surgeons could tell if a transplanted heart was thriving or being rejected, died of kidney cancer July 14 at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif....Tags: NASA, Heart and Circulatory System, Medical Procedures and Tests, Death, Biopsy
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PASSINGS: Fred Kinne, Tony Huesman, Kenneth H. Bacon
Fred Kinne
Plane crash work helped win Pulitzer
Fred Kinne, 93, a veteran editor who helped a San Diego newspaper win the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of a 1978 plane crash, died Aug. 9 at a nursing center in La Mesa, his family said. He had suffered...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Defense, Heart and Circulatory System, Bacon, United Nations
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A New Heart for Baby Nick
Times Staff WriterNick was lying in his mother's arms when the cellphone rang. She figured it was just another routine call. "Hi, doctor," she said, joking. "You've been avoiding us." "Well, I don't have to avoid you any longer," Dr. Juan Alejos replied. "We have a heart....Tags: Heart and Circulatory System, Charity, Death, Infants, Hospitals and Clinics
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For Ailing Twins' Parents, Hope Vies With Anguish
She steered with one knee, reached into the back seat and stroked the tears from her little boy's cheek. Drivers honked and shouted behind their rolled-up windows. One gave her the single-finger salute. She hardly noticed. She had something more important...Tags: Christmas, Heart and Circulatory System, Eyewear, Thumbs, Christianity
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20% of U.S. Transplant Centers Are Found to Be Substandard
Times Staff WritersAbout a fifth of federally funded transplant programs fail to meet the government's minimum standards for patient survival or perform too few operations to ensure competency, a Los Angeles Times investigation has found. The U.S. Centers for Medicare...Tags: Heart and Circulatory System, Liver, Politics, Louisville, Lung Transplants
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Adrian Kantrowitz dies at 90; surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the pioneering cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first U.S. heart transplant, developed a balloon-pumping device that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and developed mechanical heart-assist devices, died of heart...Tags: Health Organizations, Heart and Circulatory System, Charity, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bronx (New York City)
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San Diego hospital suspends heart transplants
Times Staff WritersUC San Diego Medical Center announced Friday that it was voluntarily shutting its heart transplant program — at least temporarily — amid a federal review of transplant centers that fall below performance standards. "It is a very difficult...Tags: University of California, Heart and Circulatory System, Liver, Lungs and Airways, Liver Transplants
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Doctors Say Twins Healthy Enough to Head Home
Times Staff WriterNick and Nate Draper, infant twins who have struggled to defeat a rare and severe form of heart disease over the last year, were going to their Phoenix home today after doctors at UCLA Medical Center concluded they were healthy enough to leave Los...Tags: Heart and Circulatory System, Children, Death, Hospitals and Clinics, Phoenix (Maricopa, Arizona)
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