Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thousands of people die every year because they cannot get a liver, kidney or heart from a donor. Thousands more could regain use of arms or legs from a cloned donor. All medical procedures are unnatural, but that fact alone does not make them immoral. MICHAEL SUNDERMANN Palo Alto, Calif...
...weeks later, Wisconsin-LaCrosse wrestler Joe LaRosa died under similar circumstances while attempting to make a lower weight class for an upcoming meet. The results were typical, if extreme: a wrestler cutting weight can experience any combination of kidney failure, heat stroke, or heart attack through rapid weight loss incurred by dehydration...
...hospital's innovation is not limited tocancer. Cats suffering from kidney disease--amajor cause of feline death--can now benefit froma recent donor program developed by Angellveterinarians and ethical advisors...
...advanced stage of leukemia and the fact that his donor was not a complete match, having one different antigen, lowered the odds of Kuo's recovery. After Kuo's transplant operation on Dec. 10, Kuo had a brush with death. Near Christmas, his liver and kidney functions went almost fatally askew...
...yesterday, Kuo's liver and kidney functions have improved greatly. Kuo's transplanted bone marrow has engrafted--been accepted by his body--and his graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) has been mild...