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Steve Jobs' Pancreatic Cancer Returns to the Spotlight Following Resignation

Prior to taking his last two medical leaves from Apple, Steve Jobs fought off a rare form of pancreatic cancer that ended with a liver transplant and some medication. Or has the ordeal ended? Certainly not, those who are well accustomed with the disease say, according to CBSNEWS. And so it would seem, given that J...

26 August 2011
08:02 GMT

Steve Jobs’ Speech on New Law for US Kidney Donor Registry - Video

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Senator Elaine Alquist teamed up to support signing new legislation to establish the U.S.’s first nationwide kidney donor registry.Apple’s CEO, as many fans of his should know, underwent a liver transplant last year t...

6 October 2010
05:51 GMT

Have Faith Live Longer

This is a story in which science proves that having faith in something or someone actually helps, as a new study found that religiosity actually prolongs life span, after a liver transplant.Italian researchers concluded that liver transplant candidates who have a strong faith, regardless of the religion, also have be...

30 September 2010
10:03 GMT

Confirmed: Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant

Methodist University Hospital in Memphis confirmed this morning that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, had a liver transplant back in April. Up until now, the surgery was only rumored to have been performed, as Apple refused to comment on all the speculations on Jobs' health state that could be found around the Inte...

24 June 2009
10:30 GMT

Steve Jobs Rumored to Have Had a Liver Transplant

According to the latest news around the Internet, Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple since the beginning of the ongoing year, received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago, reports The Wall Street Journal. Although Apple hasn't commented on the news story, it seems that a company'...

22 June 2009
10:32 GMT

US Organ Allocation Policy Spurs Problems

The new Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) organ allocation system, introduced in the United States in 2002, spurred worrying statistics, researchers from the University of Chicago (UC) note in a new report, published in the journal Gastroenterology. The new system virtually reduces the life expectancy of liver...

21 November 2008
05:00 GMT


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