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"Watching 11-year-old Weston Williams ride his unicycle or three-year-old Delaney Williams play, one would never suspect that brother and sister were born with a serious, life-threatening heart condition that causes an abnormally slow heartbeat. Weston's first pacemaker was implanted at UCSF in July 1998. And...

At the 60th Annual Vascular Meeting on June 1, 2006 in Philadelphia, more than 1,000 members of the Society of Vascular Surgery gathered to honor Ronald J, Stoney, M.D. with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Stoney is a Professor of Professor Emeritus of Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at...

Afghan Boy's U.S. Surgery A Success: 7-year old with Heart Defect Came to U.S. With Help of U.S. Army Doctor Jonas said Umer owes his life to Maj. T. Sloane Guy, an Army surgeon who took up his cause while on duty in Afghanistan. Guy and others had been working to get Umer to the United States for more than a year...

"Researchers can more easily set their sights on targets for new treatments for the deadliest skin cancer, thanks to landmark findings by UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center member Boris Bastian, MD, PhD, and colleagues.The skin pathologist and his colleagues showed that the skin cancer known as melanoma comes in at...

"Of all the things for a married couple to bicker about, Nancy Ascher and John Roberts have hit on a first -- a pulsing human liver. To be precise, they are standing forehead to forehead with a man splayed out between them. Roberts wants more of his liver to take next door to a waiting recipient. Ascher wants more...

SFGate.com reports on the collaboration of David M. Jablons, M.D. and Jeff Peterson whose wife Karen and died from mesothelioma, a devastating disease. Dr. David Jablons couldn't save Karen Peterson's life or even extend it. But he could give quality to whatever life she had left. That turned out to be about nine...

"The body's rejection of transplanted organs and tissues is an unfortunate risk of transplant surgery. Historically, rejection rates in a simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant have been as high as 80% and, in 2001, averaged nearly 20%. ........Diabetes Center surgeons Peter Stock, (left) and Chris Freise...

"We will discuss the most sophisticated approaches to lung cancer in the world," said David Jablons, MD, UCSF associate professor of surgery and program leader of the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program. "Both the scope of the problem and the barriers to care in China are dramatic, but we hope this conference can help...

UCSF Medical Center staff performed the biopsy and told us the next day that William had a condition called biliary atresia, which is the closure or absence of some or all of the major bile ducts. That evening William had surgery to assess the damage to his liver and to open bile ducts. Later, during clinic visits...

"The next day, surgeons at the University of California at San Francisco performed a rare liver transplant called a ``domino transplant,'' the first in the Bay Area and one of just a handful done in the United States. ........................Her choice was to have a liver that will give her a disease in 30 years...