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18 Sep 2023Marianne was planning her own funeral. Then the organs of a young boy saved her life
Marianne Thrush had just weeks to live when she received an unexpected phone call. It was a transplant nurse, urgently telling the then 32-year-old that an organ donor had been found. They removed her failing organs and commenced a high-risk six-organ transplant.
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15 Sep 2023Marnie’s shock diagnosis with stage-three Hodgkin’s lymphoma at just 19
Marnie Wills was two months into her dream nursing degree before her world was turned upside down. The 'fit and healthy' student, from Melbourne, was just 19 when she was diagnosed with stage-three cancer in April 2020.
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11 Sep 2023Life-saving technology for cardiac patients
Recently, Austin Health purchased a high-definition, four-dimensional echocardiographic system after the H.T. Pamphilon Fund awarded a $100,000 equipment grant to the Cardiology department.
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5 Sep 2023‘Connection before content’ key to ongoing wellbeing of young men living with spinal cord injury
Researchers from Monash University’s BehaviourWorks Australia, in partnership with Austin Health, AQA and the Victorian Transport Accident Commission, have concluded a three-year project which looked at optimising the wellbeing of young men, aged 35 and under, living with spinal cord injury.
