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10:35 PM PST 2/19/2012 by Billboard staff
The rock band rose to prominence from 1964 to 1972, making waves with incendiary anti-establishment lyrics and a blistering early-punk sound.
Michael Davis, the bassist of legendary rock band the MC5, has died of liver failure, his wife said Saturday. He was 68.
By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press – Wed Jan 19, 4:31 pm ET
DENVER – Some Colorado lawmakers say their state should be the first one where people become organ donors by default, even though other states' efforts have been halted by worries about making such a personal decision automatic.
By Kelly Luker
There could be worse things than having a chronic, life-threatening, stigmatizing virus. No, really.
This is not the beginning of a tell-all memoir, but merely a bit of history that is relevant to a here-and-now situation that found its roots in that decade.
Build a team in the Chicago area.
- Chicago:
Transplant Physician:
Steven L. Flamm, MD
Professor, Division of Hepatology Northwestern University
The Feinberg School of Medicine Division of Hepatology
303 East Chicago Avenue
Searle 10-541
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 503-4667
(312) 908-6192 Fax
Traditional Chinese Medicine:
David W. Miller, MD, FAAP,
LAc, Dipl OM
East-West Integrated Medicine, LLC 4101 N. Western Ave., 1st Fl Front Chicago, IL 60618 Tel: 773.960.8901
Gastroenterology:
Edward Olinger MD
201 E Huron St Galter 12-200
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 926-3616
Steven L. Flamm, MD is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hepatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He also serves as the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation. Dr. Flamm is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
He has served as the Region 7 Representative to the UNOS Liver and Intestine Committee and on the Publication and Practice Guidelines Committees of the AALSD. Dr. Flamm has published widely in the field of hepatic diseases and has spoken both nationally and internationally on many other liver-related topics including viral Hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic encephalopathy, and liver transplantation. He has an active clinical research program in chronic viral hepatitis (HBV and HCV) and autoimmune hepatitis.
Building a team to make life easier during treatment, and finally, wellness!
As patients, we need all the help we can get when undergoing Interferon/Ribavirin therapy. It is important to use all the tools we have at our disposal to give us the best chance for recovery. MORE >>
New York City's Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, established in 2000 at The Rockefeller University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York- Presbyterian Hospital, is the only comprehensive, multidisciplinary center dedicated to the study of HCV and hepatic disease in the tri-state area. Initial funding was provided by the Greenberg Medical Research Institute.
Ongoing research depends heavily on grant support from the National Institutes of Health and private donations. MORE >>
The transplant hepatology fellowship at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City offers year-long advanced clinical training to applicants who have already completed a gastroenterology fellowship.
Mount Sinai's transplant hepatology fellowship was the first to be ACGME-approved in the Northeast and remains the largest such fellowship in the United States.
The program was reaccredited in 2010 by ACGME for the maximum five-and-a-half years.
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