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...REVERSED. TYPE 1 DIABETES in an unnamed 27-year-old woman; by transplanting insulin-making cells from her mother's pancreas; in Kyoto, Japan. Although the use of pancreatic cells from organs of dead donors has been successful since 2000, this is the first time doctors have operated using living cells. The breakthrough could prove crucial in countries such as Japan, in which organ donation is uncommon...
DIED. Anthony Mandia, 44, recreation director who was the first human to receive Penn State's total artificial heart last month and ten days later was given a human heart transplant; of organ system failure and infection; in Hershey, Pa. Said Transplant Surgeon John Pennock of Mandia: "He was an extraordinary person to work with. His will to live was as strong...
Thursday, April 21. Harvard Organ Society Recital. 12:15 p.m., Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. Admission free...
...bowel, and Dr. Rosenberg quickly explained that the President had a better-than-50% chance to live out his normal life. But the medical experts could not rule out the possibility that cancerous cells had escaped into the bloodstream and, like a microscopic time bomb, seeded themselves in another organ. If cancer should recur, the President could face a long and debilitating course of therapy that would make the heavy burden of the presidency more onerous...
Thursday, April 14. Harvard Organ Society Recital, featuring the Harvard Organ Society, HUAM, and Harry Huff. 12:15 p.m. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. Admission free...