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When she tripped outside her home, fell and cut open her face, Jean Paslawsky had no idea the fall “happened for a reason.” For the Tamaqua woman, a 1975 graduate of Marian Catholic High School, that ...
As UPMC officials in Williamsport raised a flag signifying April as Donate to Life through organ donations, Shaun McQuay, of Montgomery, said he had goosebump
Patients with NASH who received livers from older donors were at higher risk for all-cause mortality, especially due to infection, according to a new study.
Matthew J. O'Connor, MD, is a board-certified attending cardiologist in the Cardiac Center and the Medical Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Program
Inclusion of race variables is inaccurate to a large degree, and also contributes to disparities in access to care. >> reporter: historically, black patients have had to wait longer for kidney transplants than other races, in part because of an outdated test that overestimated kidney function in african americans. the nation's transplant system is now banning that test and instructing every kidney transplant program to credit affected black patients with time. black people are four times more likely to be diagnosed with kidney failure than white people. the median wait time for black patients ...