Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hope for a cure was a transplant of bone marrow, which could provide the body with a rapidly multiplying source of defender cells to ward off disease. Such transplants were once possible only if a genetically matched donor, generally a sibling, could be found. Sadly, David's older sister's cell type did not match his. In the past few years, however, new technology has made it possible to transplant imperfectly matched marrow, making obsolete the isolation approach to David's illness. "There will be no more bubbles," said Dr. William Shearer...
Most of the RNC's contributions are solicited through direct mailings run by outside consulting firms. The committee snags roughly 20 percent of its donations from several business donor organizations, such as the "Republican Eagle program," whose members each contribute between $10,000 and the legal maximum...
...first case approved by the state was a patient at Tufts Medical Center, who died before a donor could be found...
...doctors who performed the operation--including Collins, Mudge, Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, and Dr. Robert J. Shemin--all participated in last week's transplant. Shemin transported the donor heart from Worcester in the same picnic cooler used last week to carry Boucher's new organ...
...major factor in the success of last week's transplant was the drug Cyclosporin A, an immunosuppressant whose function is to reduce the chances that the patients body will reject the donor organ...