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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 New York City.
- New York City:
Transplant Physician:
Dr. Lewis Teperman, MD
NYU Medical Center
403 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212.263.8259
Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Dr. Qingcai Zhang
Zhang Clinic 20 E. 46th Street
Suite 1402 New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212.573.9584
Hepatologist:
Melissa Palmer, M.D.
1097 Old Country Road, Suite 104, Plainview, N.Y. 11803.
Tel: 516.939.2626
Dr. Palmer >>
Dr. Palmer is an internationally renowned hepatologist who has been practicing medicine since 1985, and maintains the largest private medical practice devoted to liver disease in the United States.
Dr. Palmer was trained in hepatology (as well as medical school) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
She lectures frequently on liver disease-related topics to her medical peers and to the general public. She has appeared on television many times and is often quoted in magazines and newspapers.
Dr. Palmer is a board member of the New York chapter of the American Liver Foundation, and she sits on the nutrition subcommittee of the national chapter of the American Liver Foundation, and the medical advisory board of the Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Organization (PBCers).
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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