Category: heart transplant

4-Month-Old Hong Kong Girl Receives Infant Heart Transplant From Mainland China

December 22, 2022
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Cleo Lai Tsz-hei, a 4-month-old girl in Hong Kong suffering from heart failure, underwent an organ transplant with a heart from mainland China on Dec. 17, 2022. The baby is currently recovering in the intensive care unit (ICU). Believed to be the first-ever organ sent from the mainland to Hong Kong for a transplant, hospital officials did…

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Regenerative Properties of the Newborn Heart Offers Hope for Those With Congenital Heart Disease

August 29, 2022
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Researchers from the Murdoch’s Children Research Institute (MCRI) are developing new treatments for congenital heart disease that could enable children born with birth defects can regenerate the damaged organ. In 2011, Prof. Enzo Porello, who is now head of the Heart Regeneration Laboratory at the MCRI, demonstrated the regenerative properties of newborn mouse hearts at the University…

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University of Michigan Refuses to Consider Mom Of Five For A Heart Transplant Over COVID Vaccine

August 1, 2022
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Despite a mother of five’s desperate appeal to the University of Michigan (UM) hospital for a life-saving heart transplant, the state-run facility will not budge from its refusal to consider her for surgery until she is vaccinated against COVID-19. The university hospital, which has deep ties to vaccine maker Pfizer, also denied 35-year-old Katie Shier’s…

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University of Michigan Refuses to Consider Mom of 5 for Heart Transplant Over COVID Vaccine

August 1, 2022
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Despite a mother of five’s desperate appeal to the University of Michigan hospital for a life-saving heart transplant, the state-run facility won’t budge from its refusal to consider her for surgery until she is vaccinated against COVID-19. The university hospital, which has deep ties to vaccine maker Pfizer, also denied 35-year-old Katie Shier’s application for…

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The ‘Heart’-Felt Story of David Ferguson Jr. as Told by His Father

April 23, 2022
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David Ferguson tells the story of his son, David Ferguson, Jr., who has a genetic heart condition that, at 31 years old, has caused him to need a heart transplant. While he fits all the criteria, he is being denied that transplant by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston because he is unvaccinated. Ferguson tells…

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Facts Matter (Feb. 4): Court Strikes Down ‘No-Excuse’ Mail-In Voting Law, Rules it Unconstitutional in Pennsylvania

February 4, 2022
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In Pennsylvania, a state judge officially struck down its 2019 mail-in voting law, saying that the Pennsylvania Constitution requires voters to cast their ballots in person unless they meet specific requirements—meaning that the law was unconstitutional. Meanwhile, in Boston, a young man is being denied a heart transplant because he is unvaccinated. The doctors are saying…

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The Promise of Organ Transplants

January 18, 2022
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On Dec. 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant in Groote Schuur Hospital, Capetown, South Africa. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was terminally ill from heart failure. This was a last-ditch effort to save his life. The new heart, tragically, came from a 25-year-old woman, Denise Darvall, who was fatally…

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