2 Nebraska men seal friendship with kidney donation

Dan Masters, far left, his wife, Liza, and daughter Chloe stand beside Joe Reisdorff, his wife, Christa, and son, Truman, at a ceremony at Nebraska Medical Center on Friday recognizing living kidney and liver donors. The families from Syracuse, Nebraska, have become close friends since Joe received a kidney from Dan.

Renowned Oklahoma heart surgeon dies at age 91

… a day after he died. “He was fearless, and he never doubted his skill,” said Stanley Hupfeld , former Integris Health CEO who knew Zuhdi for several years. “To do that kind of groundbreaking work … that takes courage.” Zuhdi was born in Lebanon on …

Cory Bernardi breaks silence, quits the Liberal Party in Senate speech

Renegade senator Cory Bernardi has broken his silence and explained why he quit the Liberal Party, railing against the “out of touch political class” and promising his new Australian Conservatives party would restore faith in politics. His resignation immediately drew a withering attack from Liberal senate leader George Brandis, who said he had broken faith with Liberal voters for defecting and he “will have to account to the Australian people and to his own conscience”.

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Yarmouth resident Caroline Robertston says she and her husband Derek and their family are giving their baby daughter Millie as many experiences as they can while she lives at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Baby Millie had her first heart surgery, to address a congenital heart defect, one month before she was born.

Wish granted: Wake boy gets star turn at Super Bowl

Make-A-Wish America sent a handful of children with life-threatening conditions to Houston for the Super Bowl, and a Wake County boy turned his trip into a star turn. Sultan Shaikh has braved two kidney transplants, and he was thrilled to get to go to the Super Bowl with his father and brother.

Losing heart, finding hope

… 2003, during his first semester enrolled in the Beedie School of Business at SFU, Tutt began to notice changes in his health. What started as a troublesome cough eventually progressed to what was thought to be pneumonia. Within a week, he started …

Living without lungs for six days saves a mom’s life

Melissa Benoit, with her husband Chris and their daughter Olivia, celebrates her 33rd birthday last November seven months after surgeons removed her severely infected lungs, replacing them with healthy donor lungs six days later. Credit: Melissa Benoit In a bold and very challenging move, thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without them for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant.

Call firefighter in Sterling seeks kidney donor

STERLING – David H. Johnson is just a regular guy – husband, hockey dad, building contractor, call firefighter – the guy who is always willing to help his friends, neighbors and community. Thirty years ago his construction company was working on a building that required a crane.

Ventricle Assist Device Market Share 2016-2026

Heart failure is one of the most common cause of deaths worldwide, it is a condition when the heart cannot pump blood properly throughout the body. In most of the cases the left ventricle gets affected but sometimes the right ventricle gets affected and the heart cannot pump oxygen rich blood to the lungs.

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Melissa Benoit’s lungs had been weakened by cystic fibrosis and ravaged by bacterial infections for three years. Then, last February, a bout of swine flu sent her spiraling toward death.

Melissa Benoit; Sue Dupuis; Olivia Benoit

… been done before, there were a lot of unknowns,” said Dr. Niall Ferguson, head of critical care at the University Health Network, which includes Toronto General. Benoit had been transferred to TGH in early April 2016 from St. Michael’s Hospital, …

Living Without Lungs for Six Day Saves a Mom’s Life

TORONTO, Canada – January 25, 2017) – In a bold and very challenging move, thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without lungs for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant. This is believed to be the first such procedure in the world, made possible by advanced life support technology, a dedicated and diverse surgical, respirology, intensive care and perfusion team, as well as the grit and gumption of the patient and her close-knit family.

Meet the soft robot which keeps your heart beating

A soft robot which embraces failing hearts to keep blood pumping could one day be used to help keep people with heart failure alive. Developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and described last week in the academic journal Science Translational Medicine , the robotic sleeve was created to mimic the composition of human heart tissue.

Allan Harris Gets Kidney Transplant

Buffalo, NY WBEN’s own Traffic Command reporter is resting comfortably after receiving a new kidney. Allan Harris got the call Thursday afternoon and rushed to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester for the overnight transplant operation.

11-Year-Old Boy Becomes One of the Youngest to Get Artificial Heart

An Illinois boy has become one of the youngest people to receive an artificial heart after recently getting the life-saving device implanted at age 11, doctors said. Jaheim Whigham is the youngest person to be given a new kind of artificial heart originally designed for women, according to the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat

Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions weakened by heart failure.

Flabby heart keeps pumping with squeeze from robotic sleeve

In this photo provided by Harvard University, a pig’s heart encased in a robotic sleeve designed to gently squeeze a diseased heart so it better pumps blood. Researchers at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital developed the experimental device in hopes of improving treatment of heart failure, when the heart becomes too weak to pump.

Benefit Supper for Patrick Donovan and Family

On July 31st, 2016 Pat Donovan had a double lung transplant and he is doing well. To help with the cost of such a life changing illness and transplant, the Knights of Columbus along with many Parishioner’s and family members would like to invite everyone to participate in this event.