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- Comprehensive Liver Cancer Web Site Debuts - August 7, 2004
www.usclivercancer.org
The USC Liver Cancer Center focuses a multidisciplinary team approach to the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the liver and biliary tract. Our comprehensive program matches compassionate patient care with gold standard treatments and cutting edge clinical research. More...
- L.A. Mom Has Dual Organ Transplant - March 24, 2001
In what doctors at the University of Southern California's University Hospital are calling "first of its kind surgery" after she spent four years on dialysis, Maria Alvarez received a kidney from her 35-year-old daughter and part of a liver from her 37-year-old son. More...
- World's First Adult-to-Adult Live Donor Liver Transplant Without Blood Transfusion - June 15, 1999
William Jennings, 44, a Jehovah's Witness, has made medical history as the recipient of a living-related liver transplant done without the transfusion of blood or blood products. He received the right liver lobe from his brother, Scott Jennings, 40, and both have recovered well from the surgery. More...
- Ailing Baby Gets the Gift of Life from Grandmother - October 14, 1998
The unusual procedure--said to be the first of its kind in Los Angeles--when Sherry Marquez and Lydia Hand underwent simultaneous operations in a pair of hospitals eight miles apart. More...
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