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Memory Walk 2008

9:11 AM Sun, Sep 07, 2008 |

It is a great pleasure to see more $310,000 dollars raised at Sunday's Memory Walk. This annual event to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer's research is near and dear to my heart.
I lost my grandmother to the disease three years ago, Just two weeks before I started my job at WHAS 11. She had the disease for only five years before she passed away. It was swift and she did not know who I was by her third year into the disease. ...



Worth the risk?

12:01 AM Tue, Jul 15, 2008 |

When I first met hand surgeon Warren Breidenbach ten years ago, he was a guest on my talk show on WHAS Radio. He discussed his radical proposal that he wanted to attempt a hand transplant and to invite any amputees who may be interested to contact him. From the beginning, Breidenbach conceded the ethical issue whether someone should risk their health, even their life, for an elective surgery. Up to that point, organ transplants were extreme...