Word: transplante
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cruz's life was saved by an emergency transplant after her fiancE, actor Pierre Png, donated half his own liver. She now takes immunosuppressants, which keep her body from rejecting the transplant but leave her weak and vulnerable to further illness. She's wary of planning her wedding to Png, more than a year away, fearing she may not survive that long. "I feel I'm still living a nightmare," she says. She is, at any rate, still living. In June, fellow Singaporean Selvarani Raja, a 43-year-old logistics manager at Singapore Technologies, died from liver failure...
...evidence." Product labels contain no warnings, few guidelines for use, and potentially dangerous ingredients are often not listed. "Anyone who takes these pills is basically acting as a trial subject," says Dr. Chung Mau Lo of the University of Hong Kong Medical Center, who works in its liver transplant clinic...
Jiangyu Zhu, 30, and Kayoko Kimbara, 32, were arrested last month for stealing sensitive research materials from their 1999 project designed to help transplant recipients’ bodies not reject transplanted organs...
Jiangyu Zhu, 30, and Kayoko Kimbara, 32, who worked and lived together before their arrest, had been analyzing cells that could eliminate organ transplant rejection. The results of their research were “highly marketable scientific information,” according to FBI agent Scott Robbins’ affidavit...
...hospital than their counterparts who receive medication alone. "The device does not replace drug therapy," says the study's principal investigator, Dr. William Abraham of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. "But we have seen patients who improved so much that they didn't need a heart transplant...