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...transplant triumph. Nearly 90% of BONE-MARROW-TRANSPLANT patients who survive the procedure are in good health five years later...
...that it's so hard to get out of it, to know what is going on out there in America and to benefit from unfiltered common sense. And so when his Georgetown University hallmate David Matter complained in September about the way the organ-donor system allocates livers for transplant, with people in one city waiting months while patients elsewhere can expect them in less than two weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services was ordered to take a new look at who should get to the top of the list. Last spring Carolyn Staley wrote to chide...
...years ago by highway bandits as he slept in the back seat of his parents' rented car, his family reacted in a stunningly gracious manner. In a move which won them Italy's highest civil honor, the Greens donated their son's heart, liver, kidneys and pancreas for transplant, saving seven lives and securing their place in the affections of this organ donor-poor country. But the ultimate compensation -- justice -- eludes them still. A court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano...
...least some AIDS patients, doctors are considering how to rebuild their battered immune systems. After a decade of fighting HIV, many of the body's defensive reserves have been thoroughly depleted and cannot be regenerated from within. Researchers plan to grow replacement cells in the laboratory for transplant into recovering patients. Before the advent of combination therapy, no one would have considered such a rescue effort because the unchecked virus would have rapidly destroyed the new implants...
Doctors tissue-typed Cheyenne while she was still in the womb, placed her on a heart-transplant waiting list and put a team of surgeons, nurses and transport coordinators on call. Ten days later, during the 36th week of gestation, word arrived that a baby had died during or shortly after birth and the parents had agreed to donate the infant's heart...