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Toddler's Recovery Highlights Heart Transplant Surgeries at DiMaggio Children's Hospital
Two-year-old Majesty Williams is in good spirits. She loves to dress up and she has a healthy appetite. Her mother, Shaneka Holloman, says she is blessed her little girl is doing so well just six months after she had a heart transplant. “On the second day, once everything came out she was eating and doing everything like normal,” says Holloman….
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DiMaggio Children's Hospital Celebrates Decade of Heart Transplants
NBC 6’s Nathalia Ortiz shares the emotional story of one youngster who received a second chance at life thanks to the work of doctors at the hospital.
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Baby With Rare Heart Condition Finally Heads Home After Successful Transplant
It’s been a tough road and an emotional journey for Frances Rodriguez. Her 11-month-old daughter, Isabelle was born with a rare congenital heart condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which basically means she was born with only half a heart.
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After Enduring 3 Heart Attacks in 1 Year, Woman Receives Heart Transplant
At 27, Kara DuBois experienced chest pain but her doctor explained that she had a panic attack. So she thought little of it until five years later. She learned that she actually had experienced a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery. Since then she has had four more heart attacks and was in end-stage heart failure. “I didn’t know that...
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Heart Transplant Patient Visited by Drake Can Now Call Him on His Cellphone
The girl who got her wish to meet Drake while awaiting heart surgery in Chicago last month now has a direct line to the rapper — he gave Sofia Sanchez an iPhone with his private number so she can text him directly, she told the “Today” show.
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NBC 6 Responds: How to Find Help Paying A Hospital Bill
If you’re drowning in medical debt, you can ask for financial help. Charity Care is an option. You might qualify even if your family has health insurance.
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Denver Broncos Player Surprises Fan With Super Bowl Tickets
A Denver Broncos player dropped a bombshell on a cancer and heart transplant patient the night before the Super Bowl and was moved to tears by the encounter.
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Toddler Given Police Escort to Hospital Through Snowstorm ‘Resting Comfortably'
A 23-month-old Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, boy who was escorted by snowplows and state troopers for an emergency procedure during this week’s snowstorm was resting comfortably Friday in a hospital. Bentley Gingerlowski has a rare congenital heart defect and on Tuesday he needed an emergency treatment. But it was at the height of a powerful snowstorm and the doctors equipped to do...
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Troopers, Snowplow, National Guard Lead Toddler to Life-Saving Medical Care During Pa. Storm
The National Guard and Pennsylvania State Police teamed up with PennDOT to ensure that snow wouldn’t stop a toddler in need of life-saving medical care from getting to the hospital.
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Device Keeps Little Girl Awaiting Heart Transplant Alive
A six-year-old girl who appeared to have a simple cold was instead diagnosed with a heart condition and became to youngest patient in Florida to receive a special device while she awaits a heart transplant.
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Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients Reunited With Donor Families
A special anniversary to celebrate second chances took place at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Thursday where some pediatric heart transplant patients celebrated the program’s fifth anniversary by reuniting with the families of donors.
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Assistant Principal Recovering From Life-Saving Heart Transplant
An assistant principal at M.A. Milam K-8 Center in Hialeah is recovering from a life-saving heart transplant.
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Infant Who Received Heart Transplant at Holtz Children's Hospital Heading Home
It was a celebration in the form of a press conference Wednesday at Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami where a young girl with a rare heart condition was finally heading home.
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2 Kids Undergo Heart Transplants at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
A special pair of South Florida children received new hearts.