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Liver transplants on nights and weekends as safe as any other time
Medical errors tend to occur more frequently at night and on weekends due to increased sleepiness, shortage of staff and a variety of other factors. Overall, such errors represent a significant problem for the medical community. A 1999 report from the...
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Facebook share could save lives: Posting your organ donor status
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Would you share your organ donor status on Facebook? You share what you're making for dinner, how your garden grows, where you're going on vacation and every moment of it, those embarrassing Vegas photos, your family connections, your marital status...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Charity, Cancer, Social Media, Steve Jobs
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Hepatitis C a latent legacy of baby boomers' youth
The number of baby boomers dying from a "silent epidemic" of hepatitis C infections is increasing so rapidly that federal officials are planning a new nationwide push for widespread testing.
Three in four of the estimated 3.2 million people who have...Tags: Heroin, Liver Disease, Liver Cancer, Drug Use, Vaccines
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Steve Jobs dies at 56; Apple's co-founder transformed computers and culture
Steven P. Jobs, the charismatic technology pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies, has died. He was 56.
Apple announced the death of Jobs — whose legacy...Tags: Shareholders, Apple iPod, Pancreatic Cancer, Warren Buffett, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Waiting for a liver transplant, she tries to reclaim the rhythm of her life
Special to The TimesWHEN you're lying in bed and can't keep food down, muscle metabolizes first. Dr. Zhaoping Li, my UCLA clinical nutritionist, says the rate is two to three pounds of muscle wasted for every pound of fat. Bug-eyed and big-bellied with fluid after four...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Los Angeles, Death, Liver, Muscle
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L.A. surgeon indicted on charges of falsifying liver transplant records
L.A. NOWA surgeon who directed the liver transplant program at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles was indicted today by a federal grand jury for allegedly lying to officials after a liver accepted for one patient was transplanted into another...... -
People in need of liver donations may need to ask
Booster ShotsMore than 15,000 Americans are in need of a liver transplant, but the number of donated livers available each year from deceased donors is less than half that. However, live donation -- when an individual donates a part of his...... -
Californian denied out-of-state liver transplant by Anthem Blue Cross to save money, lawyer says
L.A. NOWAnthem Blue Cross refused to pay for one of its California members to get a liver transplant at an Indiana University hospital to save money, a lawyer for the patient told jurors Monday in a high-profile trial expected to shed...... -
How a Liver Unit Failed
Times Staff WritersFor at least four years, UCI Medical Center officials and employees knew that liver transplant candidates were dying while the program turned down a huge portion of donated organs it was offered. But the program continued to enroll patients, market its...Tags: Rush University, Marketing, Public Employees, Medical Services, Corporate Officers
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USC Center Is Latest With Transplant Woes
Times Staff WritersThe liver transplant program at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles has one of the highest death rates in the nation, with twice as many patients as expected dying after their surgeries, according to data released this week. The most recent statistics...Tags: Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Politics, Medicare, Liver Disease, Death
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Liver Unit Suffered in Silence
Times Staff WriterDr. Sean Cao, the lone transplant surgeon employed by UCI Medical Center, was typing at his computer around midnight. In the subject line of an e-mail message, he wrote: "confidential memo for transplant team members only." "LET ME CLARIFY ONE ISSUE,"...Tags: Science and Technology, Gaming, Hepatitis, University of California, University of California, Los Angeles
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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 Transplants, Medicare, Science and Technology, Kobe Bryant, Medical Services
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