Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Institutes of Health announced the results of a 10-year, $165 million study that proved that the most effective treatment for severe diabetes is a complex, time-consuming regimen to control blood-sugar levels tightly. Patients who make that extra effort will lower their risk of suffering blindness, kidney failure or many other complications of diabetes...
...standard treatment, the others were put on an intensive program: tests of sugar levels at least four times a day, three or more insulin shots and a special diet. The results were striking: over the 10 years, the group receiving stricter treatment suffered about half as much eye and kidney damage as the other patients...
Upon his discharge in 1947, Murray joined an experimental transplant group at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he had served during his residency. In 1954, he performed the first human kidney transplant between a pair of identical twins...
...Kidney transplants seem so routine today, but the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean," Murray wrote...
...Murray performed the first kidney transplant on non-identical twins, and over the following 22 years, he conducted successful pancreas, liver, heart, lung and heart-and-lung transplants...