Word: transplante
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...Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital, will petition their in-house ethics review board for the go-ahead on their research. Dr. George Q. Daley and Dr. Leonard I. Zon want to examine blood diseases, with a long-term focus on developing healthy therapeutic cells to transplant into sick patients after rehabilitation...
...Heart Guy, for example, needs a heart transplant and loses his place on the waiting list any time he travels more than two hours away from Nashville—which is a problem, since he intentionally leaves that area for each Alabama football game...
BORN. To OUARDA TOUIRAT, 32, the first woman to conceive naturally and give birth after a transplant of her own frozen ovarian tissue, and her husband, MALIK; a daughter, TAMARA; in Brussels. In 1997, Touirat was diagnosed with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. Doctors proposed the experimental technique to preserve her chances of having a child naturally. Her ovarian tissue, which holds immature eggs, was frozen in liquid nitrogen, then thawed and reimplanted after Touirat successfully completed chemotherapy and was declared cancer-free. FREED. GLORIA TREVI, 36, irreverent pop-music superstar nicknamed "Mexico's Madonna"; following her acquittal on charges...
...That might not sound like a breakthrough, but more strength in her trunk would significantly ease the pain in Davis' joints. And she's not alone in pinning her hopes on Huang. In three years, Huang says, his cell-transplant surgery has helped nearly 500 paraplegics and quadriplegics regain functions that received medical wisdom said were lost forever. Word of his success has spread, and Huang has already drawn 40 patients from the U.S., with about 200 more Americans on the waiting list. Near the hospital, a dozen recovering foreign patients have turned a hotel's fifth floor into...
...same bureaucracies that mistakenly allowed the Sept. 11 hijackers into the country are now overreacting in regard to student visas, Nye said, limiting America’s ability both to woo young scholars with its ideals and to transplant those values abroad...