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"I basically resumed a normal life," Jackson, now 81, said. Riverside reaches its 1,000th heart-valve case In 2012 Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside was the first Jacksonville-area hospital to perform the innovative procedure. By the time Jackson's case came along in 2018, the hospital had performed about 500 such procedures and by 2021 had reached the 1,000-case milestone. Annually at least 5 million Americans are diagnosed with heart-valve disease. Unlike other forms of heart disease that can be caused by risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure and family history, heart-...

What is a TAVR procedure? Jacksonville hospital celebrates historic milestone TAVR stands for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. The procedure is noninvasive and doctors say less risky than open heart surgery. Author: Leah Shields Updated: 6:54 AM EDT April 19, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla — Eliminating open heart surgery is a big goal. Doctors at Ascension St. Vincent’s in Jacksonville are making progress towards that goal with a big milestone.  Ascension St. Vincent's is celebrating 1,000 TAVR procedures which stands for transcatheter aortic valve replace...

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat (Photo courtesy Fulton County Sheriff's Office) Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat, who took office in January, is creating the agency’s first-ever LGBTQ liaison and updating its training to better address LGBTQ people detained at the county jail. But a local LGBTQ activist said Labat is “working against the interests of the LGBTQ community” with a push to buy the Atlanta jail to house Fulton inmates. Labat ousted incumbent Ted Jackson in the Democratic primary runoff in August. He faced no opposition in the November general election and started recruiting for an L...

Reply You Ought To Do A Story About Me: Addiction, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption, by Ted Jackson (HarperCollins, $27.99, 329 pages, 2020) 1990 How many times has a journalist or reporter heard this: "You ought to do a story about me"? Subscribe Suppose you, the journalist or reporter, met a homeless man on the street, engaged him in conversation and learned he had played in the NFL and more than one Superbowls. Would you believe him? Would it make front page news? This actually happened to author and photo-journalist Ted Jackson in Louisiana. The player was Jack...