Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Living Donor Kidney)
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2023
April
25,
2023
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As the nation takes notice of the importance of organ donations during April, National Donate Life Month, Cedars-Sinai is reporting a record-setting year for calendar year 2022.Together, surgeons at the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center …
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March
10,
2023
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16:42 PM
America/Los_Angeles
As director of the Spiritual Care Department and senior rabbi at Cedars-Sinai, Rabbi Jason Weiner, PhD, has always had a special place in his heart for organ donors and their families.“I always made sure, first of all, that when I heard about …
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2022
April
19,
2022
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06:03 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This Donate Life Month, the Nettleton and Conklin families are celebrating nearly 16 years of being family.The families are joined together not by blood or marriage but by a unique gift: a kidney, donated by Barbara “Babs” Conklin, a first grade …
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2021
December
27,
2021
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
On a recent Saturday, Gerald Freeny got a sneak peek at a few of this year’s Rose Parade floats being decorated by volunteers at a warehouse in Irwindale, California. The behind-the-scenes look captivates many, but it isn’t new to Freeny. He …
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2020
September
14,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
It was a routine ultrasound, but the results were devastating for Jamie Nash and her husband Andrew. Their baby's kidneys were dilated and his bladder was engorged, which could be signs of severe kidney dysfunction. The couple, who live in Santa …
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January
01,
2020
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00:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Regina Armstrong is looking forward to an especially exciting start to the new year. The 44-year-old Cedars-Sinai patient will be celebrating the one-year anniversary of her kidney transplant as a rider on the Donate Life float in this year's Rose …
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2019
September
18,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
After 37 years of marriage, William M. (Bill) Paparian still sings the praises of his wife, Sona Paparian. And lately he’s had even more reason to rhapsodize.Bill, a 70-year-old criminal defense lawyer and a former mayor of the City of Pasadena, …
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April
17,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
After Hermine Honarvar Rule was told that she was in critical need of a kidney transplant, two relatives and a friend each volunteered to give up a kidney to help save her.But Rule, 50, a state administrative law judge from Huntington Beach, soon …
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April
11,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Beth Halsey says the decision to donate one of her organs to a perfect stranger had its beginnings in 2017, during her daily spiritual practice.“Thoughts about donating a kidney kept coming to me while I was praying each day. At first, I just blew …
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