By Zulekha Nathoo
A toddler in need of a heart got a corridor full of cheers while heading into surgery.
As 15-month-old Mark Clouse Jr. was wheeled through the hospital to the operating room at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio, medical staff showered the little boy with applause, affection and soap bubbles.
Read the full story in USA Today.
A Culver City teen who has dreams of being an NBA star complained of a stomach ache, two weeks later he got a heart transplant.
SAN DIEGO — A teenage boy with big NBA dreams is recovering from a life-threatening scare.
14-year-old Mario Luna III says a stomachache turned into needing a heart transplant.
The teen says he’s loves playing basketball with friends and anyone who enjoys getting to play some ball. “Just the fun and aggression because it gets good when it’s starting to have fun,” said Luna.
Read or watch the full story on CBS News 8 San Diego.
By Sean Gorman
Mary Small and Janell Hull didn’t know one other before they were each brought to the hospital late last year for a heart transplant.
But they already had so much in common by the time they arrived at VCU Health Pauley Heart Center’s intensive care unit. Both had endured years-long battles with declining heart health while taking their own paths to the same destination of a lifesaving transplant from the team at Hume-Lee Transplant Center. Read the full story from VCUHealth News Center.
Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.
From fad diets to two-hour workouts, there isn’t a diet or workout regimen that Roque didn’t try. Read the full story in News Medical Life Sciences.
Adam Bodzin ran more than half a mile to get the liver, dodging racers in the Philadelphia Half-Marathon.
With the clock ticking on his precious cargo of a human liver for transplant surgery, a van driver made good time on his way from New York to Philadelphia on a Saturday morning in November.
Until he ran into thousands who were racing against a different clock: runners competing in the Dietz & Watson Philadelphia Half Marathon.
Read the full story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Project Bell was created to help donate “new beginning” bells to cancer centers after patients complete their treatment.
AUSTIN, Texas — A heart transplant patient at Ascension Seton is getting to ring the “transplant bell” for the first time.
Ascension Seton is expanding the hospital’s capacity to handle complex heart care capabilities to include care like heart transplants. As a way to celebrate the expansion, the hospital has installed a “Heart Transplant Bell” at the Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin, and heart transplant patient Raul Rangel, 39, has the honor of ringing the bell for the first time. Check out this story in KVUE.
As a twentysomething fitness instructor, it was admittedly a little disconcerting for Kristy Sidlar when she passed out in front of a class she was teaching back in 1996. She initially chalked it up to not having eaten enough, but she was soon diagnosed with an arrhythmia, given some medication and told not to exercise so much. “That is the kiss of death – to tell that to someone who loves to exercise,” says Sidlar, who is now 54. Read the full story on CareDx.com.
It was moments with his kids that made Jason Banner decide to take a chance on a new method of heart transplantation.
The single father of two discovered in 2005 he had a genetic heart condition. Last year, he was hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat that causes poor blood flow. Read more from CBS News.
Greg Olsen has always been a very public-facing figure. It dates all the way back to his days as a star tight end at Miami and his NFL playing days with the Bears, Panthers and Seahawks.
Now, Olsen is a member of the Fox broadcast crew and will be calling Super Bowl 57 alongside Kevin Burkhardt. Read the full story in Sporting News.
MANHATTAN (WABC) — A 10-year-old girl from the Bronx is celebrating her 1-year “Heart-a-versary.”
Delaney “Chi Chi” Soto got the best birthday gift last year when she received a much-needed heart transplant on January 31, 2022, at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone. Watch the story on WABC-TV News 7.