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...year-old son Matthew developed a rare and aggressive cancer, doctors gave him a 20% chance to live and started an 11-month course of chemotherapy. Cerniglia's HMO paid the bills at first. But when things took a turn for the worse and doctors ordered a bone-marrow transplant, the health plan refused to cover it. The new treatment, the administrators said, wasn't a "medical necessity," nor was it on their list of covered therapies. Despite a letter from an expert at the National Institutes of Health testifying that this was Matthew's best chance at life...
...last five years Haber developed a model to study the artery-clogging process in cardiac transplant patients...
...Transplant surgery is getting to be the easiest part of it. The problems are with rejection and immunology," Monaco said...
Monaco, who said he was honored to be the center's first director, also said the center will also help researchers compete for transplant research funding more efficiently and effectively...
Monaco is a former president of the International Transplantation Society and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and is also the editor of the journal Transplantation...