The Chaos Theory in action Posted: 6 months ago by moe
Sometime in 2004 a hamster got sick. Then it was sold from a PetSmart store. Then the woman who bought it died from a stroke. But she had contracted lymphocytic choriomeningitis from said hamster beforehand. Then her liver was donated to a guy. They guy then died several days later allegedly from the virus from the hamster.
The guy's wife is suing PetSmart for negligence.
Comments: 14 Score: [-] 425 [+].
2-For-1 Liver Transplant Saves Two Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
The transplant surgeon had good news: A donated liver was on the way for critically ill Maggie Catherwood. Then he asked: Would she let doctors cut off part of her new liver to share with an equally sick baby?
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Woman Switches Blood Type After Liver Transplant Posted: 9 months ago by muppetmaker
After receiving a Liver Transplant, Demi-Lee Brennan (9) was healing well, but nine months later on a check up, it was found that stem cells had migrated to her bone marrow, completely re working her Blood type and immune system.
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Mother Dies, So Child Can Live Posted: 9 months ago by muppetmaker
Woman learns she has advanced liver cancer, but refuses treatment to save the life of her four month old fetus, as it continued to grow. The baby was finally born, but the mother departed soon after.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 456 [+].
Transgender Woman Refused Breast Implants, Sues Hospital Posted: 9 months ago by muppet
A transgender woman slapped a Catholic hospital with a lawsuit after she was denied breast-enlargement surgery. She is suing the hospital for charges of discrimination, because of her sex-change operation.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 228 [+].
Hamster Opera Posted: 1 year ago by mennufer
Site dedicated to promoting hamster arts. Included are images of the hamster opera and hamster ballet, as well as scenes from hamster history and hamster nursery rhymes.
This site relates to "Real You Day" because, well, I have this thing for hamsters. Don't worry, it's platonic.
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Four Japanese crime bosses got liver transplants at UCLA Posted: 5 months ago by teresag
The same surgeon, an internationally known liver transplant expert, performed the procedures on four Japanese "yakuza" organized crime lords. The most prominent transplant recipient, Tadamasa Goto, had been barred from entering the U.S. because of his criminal history until the FBI helped him obtain a visa to receive the transplant.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 13 [+].
Woman Sues Victoria Secret Over Thong Injury Posted: 4 months ago by princess2408
A Los Angeles woman is suing lingerie-maker Victoria's Secret, claiming she was injured by one of the company's defective thongs.
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Mother needing transplant is refused dead daughter's kidney Posted: 6 months ago by doggylives
With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys.
So when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 24 [+].
Hospital may lose license for ER lobby death Posted: 1 year ago by kxmk
It was at least her third visit to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in as many days. “You have already been seen, and there is nothing we can do,” a nurse told her.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 78 [+].
Time Runs Out for Transplant Teen Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after her insurer, Cigna Health Care, approved a procedure it had previously described as "too experimental". They had originally agreed to a transplant but then changed their minds when the accountants felt they knew more medicine than the doctors.
Comments: 13 Score: [-] 452 [+].
The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself. Posted: 1 year ago by super
Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 96 [+].
Man dies after months of living with dead wife Posted: 1 year ago by mitzuzake
A 77-year-old Tokyo man who apparently died several days ago had been living with his wife's corpse for the past several months, police said.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 116 [+].
Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died Posted: 2 months ago by Moe
She was hospitalized with an aneurysm earlier today and died later on.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 158 [+].
Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled Posted: 2 months ago by TraumaMamma
If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive? Hospital death rates are difficult to pin down because some see sicker patient populations than others. Your chances of survival have become a little easier to find, thanks to information included in the government's Hospital Compare Web site.
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Wounded Iraq Vet's last child dies after car crash Posted: 11 months ago by moe
Mom and kids were on the way to visit him in the hospital after being wounded. The car crashed and 2 kids died. Today their last child died from his injuries.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 298 [+].
Marlon Brando's Son, Christian Brando, Reported Dead At 49 Posted: 9 months ago by punthe
Christian Brando, the eldest son of the late legendary actor Marlon Brando, is reported by several Web sites to have died at 1:47 a.m. today at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 307 [+].
Myra Nicholson - Australia's Oldest Living Person has Died Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Myra Nicholson (December 14, 1894 – September 20, 2007) was the oldest living Australian and the eleventh oldest validated person in the world following the September 15, 2007 death of French doyenne Marie-Simone Capony.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 68 [+].
Actor allegedly beat cat to death in jealous rage Posted: 3 weeks ago by kamaloo
The cat named Norman died with broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken leg, a torn tongue, massive internal injuries including bruised lungs and a bruised liver and a chest cavity filled with blood.
Comments: 14 Score: [-] 579 [+].
Man Found Frozen To Death Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
The family said Chaney was discharged from Harper Hospital in Detroit on New Year's Eve and two days later he was found dead several miles away on Longwood Road near Woodward Avenue wearing a hospital gown and bracelet, a T-shirt and shorts.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 211 [+].
Fashion designer Liz Claiborne dead at 78 Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Claiborne died Tuesday at the New York Presbyterian Hospital after suffering from cancer for a number of years.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 83 [+].