Liver Transplants

The Kane County coroner needs a liver transplant, and his medical condition may jeopardize his fitness to stand trial on misconduct charges, his attorney said …...

Southern rock icon Gregg Allman’s Sept. 6 show at Stroudsburg’s Sherman Theater has been postponed to help the singer recover from an upper respiratory infection, the theater says on its website today. “We expect to have the reschedule...

Darren Conrad still might be waiting for a liver transplant — waiting to play ice hockey again, waiting to attend his son's baseball games — …...

A 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......

More 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......

Anthem 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......

Andy Trosper, who received a liver transplant in 2010, told staff and donor families in a recent program at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital that the gift from a 16-year-old boy gave him new life and brought comfort to the boy's family. "Since...

Her strength and energy have diminished and her symptoms have become more pronounced. But that hasn't stopped Judy Kinzer Ramer from hanging tough in the biggest fight of her life. She needs a new liver. There is no whining, no complaining, no self-...

Think of Dorry Segev and Sommer Gentry as intellectual magpies. The glittery ideas they filch from fields as diverse as swing dancing, systems analysis, water skiing and medicine seemingly have little in common. But Segev and Gentry weave them together...

Kane County Coroner Charles West, whose trial on misconduct charges is pending, has undergone liver transplant surgery, his attorney said Wednesday in court. West is awake, though not speaking, as he recovers at the University of Illinois Hospital in...

Kane County Coroner Charles West died early today, just after midnight, from complications following liver transplant surgery, according to his family. West had been awaiting trial on felony misconduct charges. He had been accused of allowing two of his...

Fervor for the television show “Dallas” was intense in 1980, when the Queen Mother met actor Larry Hagman and joined the worldwide chorus asking: “Who shot J.R.?” “Not even for you, ma’am,” replied Hagman, who...