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Film Producer Promotes Organ Donation Awareness At UCSF
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Thousands of lives could be saved each year if more people placed the telltale organ donor “dot” on their drivers licenses. That was the message Monday from film producer and...
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Stanford Doctors Say Exercise Is Key To Lung Transplant Success
PALO ALTO (KCBS) –Stanford doctors now know that exercise for lung-transplant patients is key to their survival. That’s why they created the “Transplant Boot Camp,” which now inspires the former...
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Vacaville Woman Looks Back On 9/11 Heart Transplant
VACAVILLE (KCBS) – Amid all the tragedy on September 11th, 2001, one 13-year-old Vacaville girl got a life saving heart transplant at Packard Children’s Hospital. Ten years later Jennifer Silva, now...
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California Pacific Medical Center Performs 4-Way Kidney Transplant
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Each year more than 90,000 people nationwide in need of kidney transplants can remain on a waiting list for a matching kidney, either from a living donor or a deceased one, for...
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Organ Donation Becomes Part of California’s Curriculum
SACRAMENTO (KCBS) – Students in the state’s public schools are about to get a lesson or two in organ and tissue donation. Gov. Jerry Brown this week signed legislation requiring the inclusion of such...
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Antioch Toddler Recovering After Rare Double Transplant Surgery At UCSF
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – An Antioch toddler was recovering Wednesday following 12 hours of surgery in San Francisco in which he received a new kidney and a new liver. Two-year-old Matthew Ouimet was...
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Jefferson Award Winner Turns Family Tragedy Into Life-Saving Mission
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Nearly 120,000 people in the U.S. need life-saving organ transplants, according to organ donor networks. A San Francisco man who’s lived through personal tragedy has made it...
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California Bill Helps Medical Marijuana Users Access Organ Transplants
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — California lawmakers have passed a bill that prevents medical marijuana users from being denied organ transplants just because they use pot. The state Senate on Monday passed...
View ArticleDonor Network West Saves Lives Matching Organ Donors With Patients
Ayanna Anderson of Donor Network West and donor recipient Camellia Hudson Franklin talk to BR’s Christin Ayers about the challenges of matching African American donors with patients who need...
View ArticleGrieving Bay Area Mother Hears Beating Of Her Son’s Heart In Transplant...
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Two Bay Area families are now united by one heart after an organ transplant saved one man’s life when another died in a shooting. It was a meeting no one could have predicted just...
View Article‘Heart In A Box’ Could Provide Breakthrough For Heart Patients Needing...
SAN RAMON (KPIX 5) – For those whose lives depend on getting a heart transplant, the wait for the gift of life can be agonizing. Unless a donor patient has been declared brain dead, the law requires...
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