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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: Public Employees, Politics, Heart Attack, Charity, Orange County (California)
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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: Health and Safety at School, Liver Disease, Politics, Death, Sports
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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: Politics, Heart Attack, The New York Times, Charity, Stanford University
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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: Health and Safety at School, Politics, Kobe Bryant, North Carolina, Heart and Circulatory System
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Underdog Edwards says he won't give up the fight for the White House
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersJohn Edwards launched a new television spot and a final, marathon bus tour through this state Sunday, acknowledging he was the underdog but insisting he would not give up a Democratic presidential contest that increasingly centered on Barack Obama and...Tags: Marathon, Politics, Television, Death, Barack Obama
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Stem cells could remove need for liver transplants
British scientists said last week that they had managed to derive liver cells from the precursors to blood cells--a breakthrough that could remove the need for liver transplants. In the experiment scientists were able to show that blood cell precursors--...Tags: Blood Cells, Research, Liver, Science and Technology, Bone Marrow
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