Lung Transplants

PASSINGS: Julia Sampson Hayward, James Rizzi, Bob O'Rourke

2011-12-30 00:00:00

Julia Sampson Hayward Champion tennis player in 1950s Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, a champion tennis player who won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the 1953 Australian Open, died Tuesday at her home in Newport Beach of complications from a...

State Sen. Sharon Runner back on lung transplant list

2012-01-04 16:38:28

Fighting illness, Sen. Sharon Runner will not seek reelection

2012-02-22 16:39:03

Sen. Sharon Runner goes home early after lung transplant

2012-03-06 16:38:31

My Turn: A new cause with every breath he takes

2010-06-28 00:00:00

For many, Yellowstone National Park is a place where nature gives a lifetime of memories — the beauty of the landscape, the wildlife and the geysers. For me, Yellowstone is a reminder of a turning point in my life, one that resulted in a death...

Gene therapy may boost success of lung transplants

2009-10-29 00:00:00

A new gene therapy procedure to restore function in lungs damaged during harvesting from donors could make more of the organs available for transplanting, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday. Currently, only about 15% of potential donor lungs are...

20% of U.S. Transplant Centers Are Found to Be Substandard

2006-06-29 00:00:00

About 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...

List Of Transplant Facilities Not Meeting Standards

2006-07-28 00:00:00

To qualify for Medicare funding, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires transplant centers to perform a certain number of transplants annually and achieve a specific unadjusted survival rate for patients one year after surgery....

The Fayetteville Observer, N.C., Bill Kirby Jr. column

2013-05-11 02:04:02

Susan Sparks, you might say, has led a unique career, first as a trial lawyer and now as Baptist minister ... and stand-up comedian. She'll be the guest speaker Tuesday, May 14 at the American Heart Association Go Red for Women luncheon, which is...

'A true miracle'

2013-04-29 09:24:02

Call it mother's intuition, but in early February, Sherry Wilkie sensed her daughter, Jackie Brown, was fighting a losing battle. Brown's lungs, damaged by the cystic fibrosis she's had since she was 9 months old, could no longer take in air. She and...

Westbury woman needs $750G for lung transplant

2013-04-28 00:34:02

Jessyca Claros is praying for new lungs. The 25-year-old from Westbury suffers from a progressive, incurable and deadly lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis in which lung tissue turns into scar tissue. Her pulmonologist said she has from "a few months...

Fundraiser Set This Weekend For Canton Man Needing Lung Transplant

2013-04-26 13:09:27

A bottle and can drive to raise money for a local man who needs a lung transplant is scheduled Saturday and Sunday. Bob Glynn was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2008. The condition attacks the lungs, and a lung transplant is essential...

Dr. Christopher H. Wigfield, an adult thoracic and lung transplantation surgeon, has been appointed assistant professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine.

2013-04-16 09:16:00