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Over the years, Murray and his research teamconquered other obstacles in the field oftransplantation. In 1959 Murray performed asuccessful transplant between non-identical twins,and discovered that a low dose of radiationlessened the chance that the foreign organ wouldbe rejected...
Jean-Pierre Bosze is not likely to be alive a year from now if he does not receive a bone-marrow transplant. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1988, the 12- year-old boy from Hoffman Estates, Ill., has searched in vain for a suitable donor. His father Tamas, his mother and other relatives have had their blood tested, but none has the right type. His doctors have consulted the National Marrow Donor Program of 180,000 potential donors, but the odds of unrelated people matching...
Bosze's attorneys argue that agreeing to a transplant would benefit not only Jean-Pierre but the twins too, by sparing them the trauma of knowing that their half brother died when they might have been able to save him. Their effort echoes a 1969 Kentucky case in which a court ordered a mentally impaired young man to donate a kidney to his ailing brother. It reasoned that the retarded man would be devastated by his brother's death...
Before his arrival at the hotel, Jackson paid a visit to Prince Turki's father-in-law, Sheik Shams El Deen Al-Fassi, who is at New England Deaconess Hospital for observation related to a recent kidney transplant...
...aiding and abetting suicide is. As yet no charges have been filed, but a Michigan judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Kevorkian from assisting other suicides. The doctor admits to only one regret. Had the medical examiners come more quickly, Adkins' organs might have been harvested for transplant. "She had a good strong heart," he says. "I know, I watched it on the machine...