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Twenty Years after 9/11, NJ responder Receives Lung Transplant

RWJBarnabas Health, performed the life-saving double lung transplant that Tony had been waiting for.
NBIMC Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program’s Dr. Gomez-Abraham Performs Double Lung Transplant Surgery Twenty years ago, ...
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Dillon’s Story: The Life-Changing Impact of a Kidney Transplant

“Don’t let hopelessness consume you. It can happen anytime. The seventh time I got a call, it was a miracle match.”
Post-kidney transplant, Dillon Devlin found his world transformed. Back in Action After a Double Transplant Dillon Devlin, 29, ...
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Timothy’s Story: The Life-Changing Impact of a Kidney Transplant

“It’s a wonderful thing. I have so much more energy now, and I have so much more time to myself."
Post-kidney transplant, Timothy Collins found his world transformed. Loving Life with a New Kidney Timothy Collins, 60, of ...
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Screening for Lung Cancer Makes a Well-Timed Catch

“I have a sign in my kitchen that reads, ‘Grateful. Thankful. Blessed.’ And I truly am.”
With a history of smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and two parents who died from lung cancer , Isabel ...
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Bolmar Benefits from Robotic Treatment for Throat Cancer

“We decided we should enjoy life. We’re lucky enough that we can.”
Bolmar Carrasquilla had a dry cough that wouldn’t quit. The 60-year-old now-retired information technology manager didn’t think ...
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Help at Hand: Occupational Therapy

"I'm extremely grateful for the nurses, doctors and occupational therapists ... They saved my life."
Nelson Ortega was young and healthy, so he was taken by surprise when he developed a hacking cough early last August. “I wasn’t ...
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Dynamic Duo: Mother and Daughter Bariatric Surgery Success

“I just wish I would have done this surgery 15 years earlier, but I don’t look back. It’s a journey, not a race.”
Kaitlyn Stiefel, an operating room nurse at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset , used to end her workdays ...
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Help for a Wound That Wouldn’t Heal

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy delivered pure oxygen to a man's organs and connective tissues to promote wound healing.
In the summer of 2020, a Union County man—we'll call him John S.—took a day trip to the Jersey shore. Cautious about sun ...
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An Early Diagnosis of Anal Cancer Led to a Good Prognosis

“She’s a brave person ... to be open about her cancer to try and make a difference for other patients.”
Kathleen Grzyb, 56, a radiation therapist at the Radiation Oncology Practice at Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) , loves her ...
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