64-year-old Jerry Whittington was removed from the liver transplant waiting list and subsequently died in 2023, according to his family.
‘What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful impact on patients’ health outcomes,’ professor says
This bureaucrat’s denial is the latest signal of how the left will use rationing tactics to deny patients costly care.
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while awaiting a new liver say they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating a hospital waitlist. Officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center have said they are investigating after
Several relatives of patients who died while awaiting a new liver say they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating a hospital waitlist
DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while waiting for a new liver said Wednesday they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating the waitlist to make some patients ineligible to receive a new organ. Officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center […]
By the time Breanna Van Watteghem turned five years old, her kidneys had already started to fail. It began with the cloudy urine her parents would find in the toilet whenever she forgot to flush. That was followed later by recurring urinary tract infections, then persistent lower back pain beginning at the age of 11. […]
In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.
An increasing number of Memorial Hermann patients have died while anxiously waiting on transplant lists that could've granted them life-saving organs, according to data from the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network.
A Trumbull County doctor was disciplined by the Ohio Medical Board following a complaint by a female patient.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - KSNT 27 News had the opportunity to visit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to learn about the hospital's mission. The facility is centered around collaboration. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help save thousands of children worldwide. KSNT 27 News spoke with Emily Hanzlik, she's an instructor in the []
Quito, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) The Association of Dialysis Centers in Ecuador warned that some 16,000 kidney patients require hemodialysis and their life is at risk due to the energy crisis. The post Power outages affect treatment of kidney patients in Ecuador first appeared on Prensa Latina.