Word: livers
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...Richard O'Reilly of Sloan Kettering, the disease is "the exact opposite of what we talk about with kidney or heart patients. Instead of the patient rejecting the organ, the cells that go in as the transplant literally reject the patient." If unchecked, the disease eventually destroys the liver, intestine and other vital organs. Early symptoms are similar to David's: nausea, diarrhea, fever...
Cyclosporin A was developed four years ago and has been used by a handful of hospitals since then. It was formally approved by the FDA in November, 1983, and has been credited with improved success rates in liver, kidney, and heart transplants...
Although the possibility has emerged of several Harvard hospitals together starting a heart transplant program, as four have already done this fall to coordinate liver transplants, a spokesman for BWH yesterday said it was unlikely that the hospital would join such a consortium...
...been approaching this as an individual institution; not as a group as the liver people have done," she said...
DIED. Richard Hughes, 77, flamboyant dean of Asia's English-language foreign press corps, whose Bible-quoting, storytelling prowess made him "Your Grace" to generations of journalists; of kidney and liver diseases; in Hong Kong. Born in Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...