liver transplant
By Jonathan Berr, The Motley Fool
| 2:15PM 11/22/2011
Buying organs is illegal in every country except Iran, but more U.S. doctors are warming up to the idea of compensating donors. Would a carefully regulated market save lives, or put medicine on a slippery slope?
| 12:40PM 2/10/2011
Pfizer's cancer drug Sutent and Novartis's drug Afinitor have both been found to be effective against the rare form of pancreatic cancer that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was diagnosed with in 2004, according to two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
| 11:30AM 6/24/2009
On Tuesday, Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee confirmed that Steve Jobs received a transplant at its facility. An Apple spokesman has stated that he is currently on the road to recovery, and plans to be back at work by the end of June.
According to the American Liver Foundation,...
| 10:00AM 6/23/2009
Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock has risen 75 percent since January 20th -- soon after the announcement that Steve Jobs would take a leave of absence for health reasons. Those who bought shares are probably delighted that Steve Jobs has not been formally running Apple. But who knows whether Jobs has been...
| 7:15PM 6/22/2009
Has the attendance record of any executive been so closely watched as that of Apple's co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs? When it was finally leaked to the Wall Street Journal late Friday that Jobs' illness was a liver transplant, which occurred about two months ago, many Apple (AAPL) fans breathed a...