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(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) Recent heart attack patients should wait longer than currently recommended before undergoing elective surgery, study says.

(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to further limit residents' work hours, a new study reports that outcomes in two common surgeries were similar among residents who had worked less than 16 hours and those who had worked more than 16 hours.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers at the UCLA Medical Center found that antiviral therapy during compensated cirrhosis, when compared with all other strategies, is the most cost-effective approach to treating patients with advanced liver disease due to hepatitis C (HCV) infection.

Full details appear in the June issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) LA BioMed expects to receive more than $4.5 million in grants from the stimulus package, including nearly $1 million from the highly competitive Challenge Grant program.

(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) Former LA BioMed investigator Emil D.

Kakkis, MD, PhD, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe received Spirit of Excellence awards at LA BioMed Discovery Gala.

One of the more bizarre stories to appear on Health Care Renewal just resurfaced.  To summarize, in June, 2008, we posted about the strange case of four Japanese men, allegedly affiliated with Yakuza criminal organizations, who received liver transplants from the UCLA Medical Center, apparently with some alacrity.

All likely paid full list prices for their procedures, and two later donated $100,000 each to the medical center.

When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life.

A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours....

We recently posted about the strange case of four Japanese men, allegedly affiliated with Yakuza criminal organizations, who received liver transplants from the UCLA Medical Center, apparently with some alacrity.

All likely paid full list prices for their procedures, and two later donated $100,000 each to the medical center.

We posted earlier this week about how the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) let four alleged members of the Yakuza, that is, Japanese organized criminal gangs, into the US in the hope that they would talk about their gangs' activities in this country.

One attractive aspect of visiting the US for the four was apparently the opportunity to get liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center.

Sometimes, you just can't make this stuff up.... As reported last week in the Los Angeles Times, UCLA [University of California - Los Angeles] Medical Center performed liver transplants on four people with apparent ties to Japanese organized crime.

UCLA Medical Center and its most accomplished liver surgeon provided a life-saving transplant to one of Japan's most powerful gang bosses, law enforcement sources told The Times.