Word: transplante
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...technology at the center of a labor dispute that has shut down ports on the U.S. west coast $1 billion is how much the dockworker lockout costs the U.S. economy each day it continues, according to the Pacific Maritime Association 79% of Indians who sold a kidney for transplant said they would not recommend it to others, citing deteriorating health and no lasting financial benefits $9 billion a month is how much it could cost the U.S. to wage war against Iraq, according to a new congressional study 4,799 people provided samples of their belly button lint to help...
...drug, defibrotide, works to reverse the symptoms of severe veno-occlusive disease (VOD) in transplant patients...
Defibrotide was given to 88 transplant patients with severe VOD and completely reversed VOD in 36 percent of these cases...
...drug also allowed 35 percent of transplant patients to survive for more than 100 days—a significant improvement over the less than 10 percent expected to survive for this period...
...Adachi's patients was saved by a transplant. The other, a 60-year-old woman whose identity has not been released, died. That's when Adachi went to the press. In the resulting explosion of news coverage, he learned his cases weren't the first?three other Japanese deaths, all due to liver failure, had been linked to Chinese diet drugs since 2000. After the news broke, more than 600 other Japanese contacted the Health Ministry saying they had been sickened by the pills. Japan's government finally banned the drugs by name and enacted tighter controls in mid-July...