Patients with a history of smoking weed have often been denied a potentially life-saving liver transplant, but a new study indicates that toking up needn’t be considered a risk factor in the operation ...

Timothy Garon, a 56-year old Seattle-based musician, died last night from liver failure due to hepatitis C. Like so many critically ill people in the United States, he needed an organ transplant to ...

SEATTLE -- Timothy Garon's face and arms are hauntingly skeletal, but the fluid building up in his abdomen makes the 56-year-old musician look eight months pregnant. His liver, ravaged by hepatitis C, ...

Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine analyzed pre- and post-operation consideration and clinicians’ attitudes about heart treatments for cannabis users and recommended revising the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The political wrangling over medical marijuana doesn’t seem to be ...

PARK CITY, Utah — A man who was initially denied a lung transplant at the University of Utah because marijuana was found in his system has died after suffering complications from recent surgery. Riley ...

A Utah man says he was initially denied a crucial double lung transplant because he had marijuana in his system. Nineteen-year-old Riley Hancey began feeling ill the day after Thanksgiving in 2016. He ...

Although the CDC estimates that 48.2 million Americans (18 percent of the population) used cannabis in 2019, at least eight states have passed laws prohibiting the denial of a transplant solely on the ...

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SEATTLE — A man who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died. Timothy Garon, 56, died Thursday at Bailey-Boushay House ...

"Most transplant centers struggle with issues of how to deal with people who are known to use marijuana, whether or not it's with a doctor's prescription," said Dr. Robert Sade, director of the ...

Criteria for a transplant include whether the candidate is likely to drink or do drugs. Tim Garon lies in his hospital bed in Seattle Thursday as his girlfriend, Leisa Bueno, leans over to give him a ...