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Big hearts for little hearts -

r Leonard Bailey, who performed the world's first infant heart transplant 25 years ago, will speak at the inaugural membership luncheon meeting of the Riverside Guild of Loma Linda University Children's Hospital on Wednesday at Victoria Club in Riverside.

Dr. Bailey gained international fame in 1984 when he transplanted a baboon's heart into infant Baby Fae, an operation that paved the way for the world's first human-to-human heart transplant in a child a year later.

More than 500 children have received heart transplants at Loma Linda, and more than 6,000 procedures have been conducted around the world.

The Riverside Guild, called Big Hearts for Little Hearts, is seeking members to help with projects that address the critical needs of hospitalized children and their families at the Loma Linda hospital.

The Guild's first project is to purchase a cardiac monitor for the Children's Hospital. Each year, more than 10,000 children from the Riverside area are treated at the hospital   Read Full Article...