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US women less likely for liver transplants: study
Reuters - Nov 25, 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women are less likely than men in the United States to get a life-saving liver transplant, perhaps because of physical differences ...
Do Race, Gender Play a Role in Liver Transplant? eFluxMedia
New System Eliminates Racial Disparities in Liver Transplants Kaiser network.org
Race and Sex Disparities in Liver Transplantation Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
News & Observer - MedPage Today
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Ore. commissioner gets liver transplant at 68
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com, OR - Nov 29, 2008
(AP) � A Jackson County commissioner has made it through a liver transplant. Friends and the hospital say 68-year-old Jack Walker is recovering in Portland ...
Two more months of Portland recovery for Walker Mail Tribune
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Mixed Results in New Organ Donation Ranking System
WRCB-TV, TN - 1 hour ago
But the new approach hasn't been as successful in helping another group that often finds itself at the bottom of the liver transplant waiting list: women. ...

Walker making steady progress after liver-transplant operation
Mail Tribune, OR - Nov 28, 2008
About 6500 liver transplants were performed last year, according to the American Liver Foundation, but about 1600 people died last year while waiting for a ...
Jack Walker Getting Transplant KOBI 5
Walker in hospital for liver transplant Mail Tribune
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34-day-old liver transplant recipient leaves health center
The Daily Yomiuri, Japan - Nov 29, 2008
The other infant of the same weight who survived a liver transplant operation underwent the procedure at Kyoto University Hospital in 2004. ...

UA Surgeons Perform Record 100th Abdominal Transplant of 2008
University of Arizona News (press release), AZ - 3 hours ago
To date, 70 kidney transplants, 20 liver transplants and 13 pancreas transplants have been performed since January. Members of the surgical abdominal ...

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Racial Disparities No Longer Exist in Liver Transplant
eFluxMedia - Nov 27, 2008
Therefore, blacks on the organ lists had a 50 percent greater chance of dying or becoming too ill for a liver transplant. It is known that black patients ...

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Alonzo Mourning helps raise money for boy who needs liver transplant
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Nov 26, 2008
Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, who had a kidney transplant in 2003, is calling on the community to help fund a liver transplant for a 3-year-old Bahamian ...
A Little Boy's Only Survival Is A Liver Transplant CBS 4
Mourning Asks For Donations For Toddler Who Needs Liver Transplant Local10.com
Alonzo Mourning to raise money for tot who needs liver transplant MiamiHerald.com
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Pastor gains insight on life while awaiting liver transplant
The Newark Advocate, OH - Nov 27, 2008
But those plans have changed since Schreck was placed on the liver transplant list Oct. 24. Now she can't be more than a couple of hours away from Ohio ...

Racial disparity in transplant wait eliminated
WTTE, OH - Nov 25, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) -- It used to be that blacks who were waiting for a liver transplant were more likely to die than whites were in the same situation. ...

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