The Larry King Cardiac Foundation
Popular CNN talk show host Larry King underwent quintuple bypass heart surgery in 1987 and founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988 to “provide funding for life-saving treatment for individuals who, due to limited means or no insurance, would otherwise be unable to receive the treatment and care they so desperately need.”
This week, Larry King announced the Foundation’s partnership with the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center which will provide treatment to 300 uninsured patients over the course of three years including free medical devices and surgeries.
Way to go, Larry!
Los Angeles Times, July 27, 2006
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A Hearty Life » Understanding the Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease
Oct 6, 2006 at 11:43 am
[...] The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics has just been announced. They’re offering a $10 million cash prize for anyone who can speed up the sequencing of the human genome. CNN talk show host Larry King has this to say about the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics and what it means to people with heart disease: Since having a heart attack and bypass surgery over 18 years ago I have learned to live with the effects of heart disease. I created The Larry King Cardiac Foundation to help others get life-saving cardiac surgeries when they had nowhere else to turn. But what if we could learn how to stop heart disease from happening? What if we were able to reduce a person’s likelihood of cardiovascular disease based on his or her genetic profile, as well as on the individual’s age, gender, and lifestyle. It is my hope that by supporting the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics to drive rapid human genome sequencing that we can get answers to these questions and help our Foundation save more lives in the years to come. [...]
A Hearty Life » Larry King Returns to Show Just 3 Days After Heart Operation
Mar 22, 2007 at 9:30 pm
[...] anyone else as amazed as I am that Larry King was able to return to his CNN talk show the Monday following a Friday carotid endarterectomy? The [...]
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