Robert Goulet awaits lung transplant
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Singer and actor Robert Goulet is heavily sedated and breathing through a respirator in a Los Angeles hospital while he awaits a lung transplant, his wife Vera told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "He can hear me but he can't respond," Vera Goulet said of the 73-year-old crooner.
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Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare in May, said he is preparing to undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of his right lung.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was a critical time for his people who must now address the question of his successor, Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff said today.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained on life support in a Paris-area hospital as factions in the Gaza Strip prepared to discuss his successor in an effort to avoid conflict.
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Goose Gossage waited a long time to get into the Hall of Fame.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site, hospital officials said.
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NEW YORK  - Extremely obese adults in need of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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CLEVELAND -- A person severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using tissues from an organ donor.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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Washington - American regulators on Monday announced approval of an artificial heart designed to keep a patient alive while awaiting a transplant.
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NEW YORK  - The psychological well-being of  patients after lung transplantation is not significantly  different from that in the general population, results of a  small study suggest. However, increased psychological distress  was found in a subgroup of transplant patients.
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A diagnosis of the illness of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who was flown to France for treatment yesterday will not be available for several days.
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Doctors in France treating the Palestinian leader, Yassar Arafat, have told him that it will be several days before they know exactly what is wrong with him.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.
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It is important that potential donors know about possible complications before they make this life-saving sacrifice.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A medical team was flying Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to France early today for emergency treatment in the clearest sign yet that he is suffering from a severe but still unconfirmed illness that Palestinian officials said yesterday could be life-threatening.
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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands says in a new medical journal article that it is ready to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.