Word: transplantation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...space squeeze threatens expansion plans, Grogan says, schools will be more receptive to a transplant...
...change the President's approach. The Bush-Cheney plan is certain to focus on increasing energy production. After all, you won't find any tree huggers in the White House: just a proud Texan who sank a few wells in the oil patch and his deputy, Cheney, a Texas transplant who made millions as CEO of Halliburton. Those ties give critics plenty to latch onto as the President and the Veep stump for achieving greater capacity by opening a pristine Alaskan preserve for oil drilling and by putting a new power plant online every week for the next 20 years...
Doctor Huang is a transplant specialist with a very busy calendar. In the run-up to Labor Day, the communist authorities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong's border wonderland of sin and shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage...
...Shenzhen will make it. Wiwijaya, an Indonesian-born ethnic Chinese, tells the harrowing story of his brother, who was suffering from renal failure. He ordered a replacement kidney for $25,000 and, as a 26-year-old, made the journey to southern China from Medan in 1996. The transplant was successful, but when he returned for an internal checkup last August something went terribly wrong. His stomach swelled up, his new kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says Wiwijaya. "He wanted to give the best kidney...
Last week, after two years of post-transplant observation, the UCLA doctors felt confident enough to pronounce all three boys cured. "They're as healthy as anyone," says Stiehm, who sees them as proof that cord blood can save many more young lives. --By Frederic Golden. Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles