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NEWS ABOUT: liver transplants

liver transplants stories: 10 news summaries

Jobs Takes Stage at Apple Event, Talks Health, iPods

Some talk of cancer, but mostly tech

Sep 9, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Perhaps as much speculation has surrounded the possible attendance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company’s product event today as what the event will actually be about. The first question is answered, Bloomberg reports: Jobs has made his first public appearance since having a liver transplant during a... More »

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cancer • Steve Jobs • iPhone • Apple • iPod • iTunes Store • consumer electronics • liver transplants • product launch • press event

(AP) - Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is back at work after a five-and-a-half-month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant. Jobs, 54, is working from Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters "a few days a week" and working from home the remaining days, an Apple spokesman said today. More »

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Steve Jobs • CEO • Apple • pancreatic cancer • liver transplants • Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute

OPINION

Steve Jobs Is a Bald-Faced Liar

'Nutritional problem'
a crock, and Apple should face SEC over health deception

Jun 24, 09 2:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Steve Jobs’ life was in danger before his liver transplant, and he “straight-out” lied about it, writes Dana Blankenhorn for ZDNet. In a January letter, Jobs said he had a “nutritional problem”; that letter “was a lie from beginning to end.” Now, Apple admits its founder... More »

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Steve Jobs • health • Apple • lying • liver transplants • Securities and Exchange Commission

Liver Transplant Hospital Bullish on Jobs' Prognosis

Transplant center denies Apple boss jumped waiting list

Jun 24, 09 6:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Tennessee hospital has confirmed that Steve Jobs received a new liver there earlier this year, reports the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The Apple boss "is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis," said officials at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, who issued a press release with Jobs'... More »

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Steve Jobs • Apple • Tennessee • liver • liver transplants

1 of 4 UK Liver Transplants Go to Alcoholics

Situation sparks fury among families of victims who died waiting for transplant

Feb 15, 09 9:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Nearly one quarter of those receiving liver transplants in the UK are heavy drinkers, prompting a fiery debate over the allocation of organs to alcoholics, the Guardian reports. In the past decade, as waiting lists have lengthened, transplants for heavy drinkers have spiked 60%—a trend the mother of one... More »

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alcohol • United Kingdom • binge drinking • organ donation • liver transplants

 Jobs Mulls Liver Transplant 

Ailing Apple founder claims not to get high interest level in his condition

Jan 16, 09 4:41 PM CST
(Newser) - With rumors rampant, Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant. The Apple CEO’s announcement Wednesday that he’ll take a leave of absence to deal with his apparently deteriorating health has the rumor mill working 24/7, but he professes ignorance. Reached by phone, he asked a Bloomberg reporter, “... More »

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Steve Jobs • organ transplants • Apple • pancreatic cancer • liver transplants

Rich Foreigners Jump
List for Brit Organs

Doctors outraged as a record 8,000 Britons await transplants

Jan 4, 09 12:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Despite dire organ shortages for ailing British patients, the livers of 50 UK donors were sold to foreigners for nearly $110,000 each, the Times of London reports. Forty patients from Greece and Cyprus—as well as others from non-EU nations including Libya, the UAE, China, and Israel—received liver... More »

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health care • organ transplants • United Kingdom • Europe • liver transplants

Japanese Mob Boss Gave $100K to UCLA

Goto rewards hospital after controversial kidney transplant

May 31, 08 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Suspected Japanese mob boss Tadmasa Goto donated $100,000 to UCLA just months after getting a liver transplant there, the Los Angeles Times reports. Goto was treated in 2001, a year when 186 people died waiting for livers in the LA area alone. The school has confirmed Goto’s... More »

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Japan • Yakuza • UCLA • Charles Grassley • UCLA Medical Center • liver transplants

4 Japanese Gangsters Get UCLA Liver Transplants

FBI helped one crime boss with his visa

May 30, 08 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four Yakuza gangsters, including one of Japan's most powerful crime bosses, had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center between 2000 and 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. Organs were particularly scarce in those years, with over 100 people on the waiting list dying each year. There is no indication that... More »

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Japan • organ transplants • organized crime • Yakuza • UCLA Medical Center • liver transplants • gangsters

 Transplant List Called Misleading 

1/3 of patients
on the list not eligible for surgery

Mar 22, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of patients on a national list for organ transplants are actually ineligible to receive them, the Washington Post reports. One third of the 98,000 patients on the United Network for Organ Sharing list are either too sick or too healthy to get a new organ. Critics say including... More »

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organ transplants • heart transplants • kidney transplant • lung transplants • United Network for Organ Sharing • organ donation • UNOS • transplant list • liver transplants

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