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...Cohn did offer some positive encouragement also. He says the new wonder immune-suppressions drug, cyclosporin, which was pioneered for use with heart transplants at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) last year, had not yet been tested in cross-species transplantation and indicated that Bailey was going to attempt the operation. However, he says that the likelihood of success even with the new drug was minimal...
...Eugene Braunwald, chairman of the department of medicine at Harvard- affiliated Brigham and Woman's Hospital (BWH), ended Darsee's research fellowship at the BWH in May, 1981 after Darsee admitted that he had fabricated data for an article on heart disease published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Doctors at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) late last night performed their fourth human heart transplant, nearly six months to the day after their first such procedure...
...BWH had gained permission for the first two operations, both in February, from the state Department of Public Health on a case-by-case basis. In May it won the sole right to perform transplants until September, when the Department will review other applicants...
Although transplants often serve as a last resort in treating liver diseases, the BWH doctor said that the new test is unlikely to reduce the number of transplants performed, because hepatitis B infections are "a relative contraindication to transplants...