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Father-son developers are common thread in Tamarac corruption probes
It began with a bold plan to build more than 700 homes on two old golf courses, making millions for the developers and boosting the tax coffers for Tamarac, a city that hadn't seen such a big proposal in years. Now the father-and-son team of homebuilders...Tags: Lawyers, Josephus Eggelletion, Metal and Mineral, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Liver Transplants Not Available Equally Across the Nation
FOX 4 Medical ReporterEpidemics of hepatitis C, obesity and alcoholism are fueling the need for liver transplants, with over 16,000 Americans waiting for one. But the chances of actually getting a transplant are worse in some parts of the country than others. FOX 4 Medical...Tags: Surgery, Health, Obesity, Physical Conditions, Human Body
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Too thankful for despair
Strip nearly everything from Patricia Jefferson's life. Take away her home, her possessions, her vision. Place her, blind and humbled, at a dining table in a West Side apartment with a fraying wicker basket as a centerpiece.
What she'll do is smile and...Tags: Children, Cancer, Surgery, Illnesses, Health
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Two women offer their livers to ailing neighbor
TribLocal - Plainfield » NewsDarren Conrad still might be waiting for a liver transplant — waiting to play ice hockey again, waiting to attend his son's baseball games — …... -
Transplants give Burbank woman the gift of life
Monica O'Brien is celebrating the gift of life.
The 33-year-old Burbank resident has survived three liver transplants and despite the odds, gave birth to a daughter in July.
O'Brien was born with hepatitis C but wasn't diagnosed until after high...Tags: Surgery, Health, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Social Issues, Physical Conditions
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Just a liver transplant among neighbors
Darren Conrad still might be waiting for a liver transplant — waiting to play ice hockey again, waiting to attend his son's baseball games — if he didn't live on Brown Lane in Plainfield.
Neighbors in his subdivision had always assisted...Tags: Surgery, Halloween, Health, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Walter Payton
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On the Town: Armenian doctors honored at dinner
The World Children's Transplant Fund hosted a fundraising dinner on Aug. 11 in Pasadena's Café Santorini Rococo Room to welcome and honor Dr. Gegham Poghosyan, general surgeon, and Dr. David Dallakyan, pediatric surgeon. Both pediatricians are visiting...Tags: Surgery, Washington, DC, Music, Chiropractors, Native Americans
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Steve Jobs Did Receive Transplant At Memphis Hospital
George BrownFAST FACTS: - Steve Jobs received liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital - Transplant reportedly took place in April - Hospital says Jobs went through normal channels george.brown@wreg.com ( Memphis, TN 6/23/2009) Methodist University...Tags: Health, Apple Inc., George Brown, Tennessee, Health and Safety at School
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Patient Sues Blue Cross For Denying Liver Transplant
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- The nation's largest health insurer, WellPoint, Inc., and its California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, are being sued by a man who says he was denied a life saving liver transplant based on geography. The lawsuit was filed by 61-year-...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Lawyers, Westwood, Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Prayers in the Pot Wars
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES- Cheryl Shuman is an activist and a survivor who's staring down her own mortality. It has truly been a difficult road for the medical marijuana user. Before she began her work to reform marijuana laws, Cheryl was known as the 'Optician to...Tags: Insurance, Aetna Inc., Marijuana Use, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Tom Cruise
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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......
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