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...body. Once the alien threat has been identified, agents known as helper T cells unleash the powerful immune response that attacks grafted tissue. During the 1970s, physicians found that they could minimize this reaction by more closely matching the MHC proteins, or immunological "dog tags," of a donor with those of the recipient. Even so, they could not completely eliminate the rejection response. To make matters worse, the only drugs available to weaken it shut down the defensive system completely, leaving patients vulnerable to viruses, bacteria or tumors. The triple threat of rejection, infection and malignancy kept transplant surgery...
...Public and private donors are looking for waysto coordinate giving for maximum impact," Ramseysaid. "Coordinated and effective programs buildconfidence in donor communities...
...advantage of this project over a fast is its efficiency, Vroomen said. A fast only generates about $1.25 per person, whereas this method results in a full meal for a homeless person from each student donor...
...memo to prepare Allison for the dinner told him he would be expected to answer the question, "What is the most prestigious position [the donor] can buy for 250K...
Surgeons at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California only last October transplanted a heart into Newborn Paul Holc. What made the transplant different was that the donor, a Canadian infant known as Baby Gabriel, was born anencephalic, that is, without most of her brain. Like virtually all anencephalics, she could not have survived more than a few days outside the womb; unlike most, Gabriel died before her healthy organs deteriorated. Then, early in January, surgeons in Mexico City announced that for the first time, they had successfully grafted tissue from a miscarried fetus into the brains of two Parkinson...