Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Physicians credit Murray with developing the techniques that made kidney transplants possible...
Murray began his research on organ transplantation during his residency atBrigham Hospital, and on December 23, 1954,performed the first successful transplantation ofa kidney from one identical twin, Ronald Herrick,into his brother Richard Herrick...
...Europe, where the blood testing is not mandatory, the drug costs only about $1,300 a year. Salzman calls the refusal of some state Medicaid programs to pay the full price of clozapine "outrageous," since they often shell out up to $50,000 a year for procedures like kidney dialysis. In addition, Salzman suggests that U.S. lawmakers could ease Sandoz's liability concerns by providing indemnity...
...cancers but differ dramatically from colon cancers or leukemias. To look for common weaknesses among different types of cancer, the automation process tests chemical compounds directly against a range of 60 lines of living tumor cells grown in Petri dishes and representing seven leading cancer killers: colon, lung, melanoma, kidney, ovarian, brain and blood...
...only Jean-Pierre but the twins too, by sparing them the trauma of knowing that their half brother died when they might have been able to save him. Their effort echoes a 1969 Kentucky case in which a court ordered a mentally impaired young man to donate a kidney to his ailing brother. It reasoned that the retarded man would be devastated by his brother's death...