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WORT-LESS Here's a downer about the wildly popular herbal antidepressant Saint-John's-wort. However potent its many fans may believe the pretty yellow flower's extract to be, it interacts dangerously with two medications: the antirejection drug cyclosporine, used in organ transplants, and the protease inhibitor indinavir, used to treat AIDS. In both cases, Saint-John's-wort reduced blood concentrations of the drug, rendering it less effective...
...leaves the cafe and heads to a nearby church, Refugee Temple Assembly of Yahweh Yahoshua the Messiah. His father used to preach in this Pentecostal church. This is where D'Angelo got his start--at age 5--playing piano or organ while his father preached. He hasn't been back in ages...
Shalala said she hopes her proposal will reduce shortages of the organ throughout the country. In 1998 alone, 1,319 Americans died while awaiting necessary liver transplants...
Under the National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984, Shalala has the power to set the rules governing the allocation of transplanted organs...
...These experiments, which scientists caution are not necessarily indicative of future success in human subjects, could usher in a new era of organ transplants, giving hope to people whose sensory organs have been damaged or lost. While scientists have already used human cells to grow skin in labs, the generation of eyes and ears is a more complex and multi-faceted challenge, in part because of the complexity of those organs. But in the long run, scientists say, it's possible that human cells could someday be used to grow replacement parts - thus diminishing the dependence on human donors...