This page is used by the HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION to provide useful links to important heart, transplant and organ donation related news stories.

Nova Online Operation: Heart Transplant or How to Transplant a Heart in Nineteen Easy Steps by Rick Groleau Heart Transplant: Coping with Preoperative Stress Webcast video discussion on cbs2chicago.healthology.com with Frank Torre and Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA. Hosted by David Marks, MD. Transplant leads to heartache A story by Jon Yates on chicagotribune.com about Liam Dooley who received a holiday miracle at age 11 but his parents have heartaches with the bills. Persuading more people to donate organs Letter to the chicagotribune.com editor from LifeSharers Executive Director. Thinking Against Disease A fortwayne.com article by Ronald Kotulak on the mind and body relationship including information on Delores Rogalski, a 57-year-old from St. Joseph, Michigan who received a heart transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Additional study needed for Certican FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Additional Study Data to Support Approval of Certican in Heart Transplant Recipients "Beating-Heart" Transplant New 'Beating-Heart' Transplant Could Ease Organ Shortages. "Domino" Heart Transplant Patients Doing Well Columbus Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio performs a "Domino" heart transplant that saves the lives of 2 children. Heart Device Succeeds on Second Ariz. Baby Article from ABCNews.go.com. Lab-Grown Organ Transplant Seven patients have successfully received bladder transplants where the replacement organ was grown in a lab from the patients own cells. As the new organ is made from the donors own cells, there is no need for anti-rejection drugs and there are fewer complications. This technology may eventually result in additional types of complex organs being developed in the lab. These may include hearts, kidneys and livers. Man Gets New Artificial Heart Device Article from www.comcast.net. Mouse Testicle Cells Behave Like Stem Cells Article from USAToday.com.

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benefit of transplant recipients, advanced heart failure

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