Word: transplantation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baboon-heart transplant inspires both awe and anger...
...week after the historic transplant operation at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California, the first infant?though not the first person?to receive a simian heart was reported to be doing remarkably well. "All vital signs are still good, and there's no sign of rejection," said Hospital Spokeswoman Patti Gentry, noting that Baby Fae was "just gulping down her formula." Outside the hospital, there was wonder and excitement over this latest medical marvel, but the enthusiasm was dampened somewhat by controversy. Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called "ghoulish tinkering" with human and animal...
...medical community, though normally receptive to technical innovation, was sharply divided. "There has never been a successful cross-species transplant," declared University of Minnesota Surgeon John Najarian, one of the country's leading pediatric-transplant specialists. "To try it now is merely to prolong the dying process. I think Baby Fae is going to reject her heart." Others defended the experiment. "It's very easy to sit back and be negative when a new treatment is announced," said Dr. John Collins, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "If we all were afraid to attempt...
...pioneered research in cardiology in recent years, and has earned worldwide fame for recent heart transplant operations. The institution was rated higher than the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota...
...pure and therefore a precise instrument. Says Milstein: "It al lows you to discriminate one molecule from another." Monoclonal antibodies can home in on targets ranging from a malignant cell to a malaria parasite to a specific structure in the brain. They have already showed promise in treating transplant and cancer patients...