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Doctors say Mickey Mantle is doing "remarkably well" after undergoing a second operation to stop bleeding around his newly transplanted liver . A hospital spokeswoman said such bleeding sometimes occurs in transplant cases and does not mean the body is rejecting the organ, which seems to be functioning well. Mantle, who was expected to be out of bed and moving around a bit by the end of the day, remains at Baylor Medical Center in critical but stable condition and could return home in two to three weeks...
Mickey Mantle is recovering from liver transplant surgeryearly this morning. Theformer Yankee great, 63, received the organ just two days after doctors at Baylor University hospital decided that his advanced liver cancer, complicated by hepatitis, would soon kill him otherwise. Physicians insisted that Mantle's age and deteriorating condition -- not his fame -- put him at the top on the waiting list when they found a new liver Wednesday night. "A lot of people were suspicious of this--last night we'd heard it could be three or four weeks, and now today he has the new liver," says TIME Dallas...
Undergraduate members voted to cede authorityto the graduate Board of The Crimson to "maintainthe continuity of the paper [the Service News] andto keep it from becoming a simple organ of theservices or the university," according to the 1943announcement...
...offer to play for the Chicago Bears in favor of going to medical school at the University of California at San Francisco. He stayed there for a residency in surgery, joined the faculty and soon became one of the first practitioners in a glamorous new field of medicine: organ transplantation...
Many physicians had written off this kind of organ swapping between species back in 1984, when Dr. Leonard Bailey of Loma Linda University Hospital in California transplanted a baboon's heart into a two-week-old infant known as Baby Fae. Three weeks after the operation, the child died of kidney failure, and Bailey was heavily criticized for experimenting on a human with little chance of success...