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Born with a malfunctioning liver, Benny underwent his first transplant at age 8. For five years, he took a drug called cyclosporin that prevented his body from rejecting the alien organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while...
...some cases transplant patients can be weaned from their antirejection drugs, but it must be done under close medical supervision so doctors can intervene at the earliest sign of trouble. If Benny had bided his time, say doctors, he might have had a happier relationship with the transplanted organ. "The longer you have an organ, particularly the liver, the more it becomes a part of you, and you a part of it," says Dr. Andrew Klein, a liver- transplant specialist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Transplant surgeons admit they are among the most aggressive at trying to keep death...
...headline in The Harvard Gazette, the University's propaganda organ, put it euphemistically: "Museum Staff to Be Restructured." The staff of Harvard's Semitic Museum wasn't "restructured"--it was fired...
Researchers have genetically altered laboratory mice so that their immune systems are fooled into making human antibodies, powerful proteins that attack viruses, bacteria and other biological threats. The technical breakthrough could eventually lead to the mass production of synthetic antibodies to help fight infections, organ rejection and possibly even cancer...
Zeitels says he enjoys the challenge of working with such a delicate and finely-tuned organ of the body. "Life as a doctor is controlled chaos," says Zeitels, as he hustles from one examination room to the next, taking care of the waiting patients...