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Spring Grove Man Rides Bike For Organ Donation
Multi-media JournalistA man who had to fight to survive is now fighting for a cause. George Bollinger from Heidelberg Township in York County waited two years for a liver transplant after being diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, a chronic liver disease. He soon...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Vehicles, Liver Disease, Liver
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OFF TOPIC: Ill Gregg Allman cancels fall tour, including Sherman Theater date
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGSouthern 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... -
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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: Criminal Laws, Sports, Metal and Mineral, Family, Florida's Turnpike
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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: Health, Liver, Obesity, Physical Conditions, Surgery
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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: Crossroads, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Death, Liver
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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: Health, Diabetes, Liver, Internists, Diseases and Illnesses
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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: Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Liver, Diseases and Illnesses, Surgery
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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: Health, Gene Autry, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Carol Liu, Entertainment
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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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