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...human immune system will attack anything foreign that enters the body, including transplanted organs. That is why powerful and sometimes life-threatening drugs that suppress the immune system have always been imperative to prevent the rejection of new organs. That is, until now: the British medical journal The Lancet today lays out the first successful trachea transplant, which was also - and more importantly - the first tissue transplant to use stem cells and thus do away with immunosuppressive therapy...
...Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin's richly populated film about a fractious family gathering for the holidays in a provincial city. Deneuve is the curiously calm matriarch and least neurotic member of this brood. She needs a bone-marrow transplant if she is to survive the sudden onset of leukemia, which is something of a family curse. The best donor possibility is, naturally, one of her kin. The trouble is that they are apparently more interested in their own petty feuds than they are in rescuing her. That's especially true of Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a glum playwright who, several years...
...story of a 13-year-old British girl who is refusing a heart transplant because she's already been through enough pain reminds me that when you're looking for the right answer, humility may be as essential as wisdom...
Hannah Jones' leukemia was diagnosed when she was 4. She later developed heart disease and has endured chemotherapy and nearly a dozen operations. This past summer, when doctors told her that without a heart transplant she'd be dead in six months, she refused to go through with it. "I've been in hospital too much - I've had too much trauma," she told the Guardian. She was not asserting a right to die; she was suggesting that she had a right to live on her own terms and to decide whether the benefit was worth the cost...
...promising a cure. Without a transplant, her heart was sure to give out, but the operation could kill her, as could the complications that might follow. Antirejection drugs could reignite the leukemia; another transplant might be necessary in just a few years. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...