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Francis Daniels Moore ’35, a pioneer in the field of surgery who oversaw the first successful human organ transplant, died Nov. 24 of heart failure...
Moore led the way in the development of organ transplantation and heart surgery methods, heading the team that performed the first organ transplant in 1954—transferring a kidney between identical twins...
These days kava users aren't feeling quite so calm. Reports of liver damage have been piling up in Europe and the U.S.--including the case of a previously healthy 45-year-old American woman who took kava and suddenly needed a liver transplant. Last week the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a kava alert. Sales of the herb had already been halted in France and Switzerland and suspended in Britain. German authorities are in the process of reclassifying it as a prescription drug...
...days but failed after kinking or other blood-vessel problems choked off circulation. Many members of the medical community were nonetheless encouraged. Says New York University's Giuseppe Del Priore, who has performed the procedure on animals: "Now that we have the first, the second and third transplant should come soon...
...problems remain. Transplant surgery is a punishing procedure, and the battery of antirejection drugs a patient must take can cause grueling side effects. If a transplant recipient did become pregnant, the body, already fighting to reject the alien organ, might reject the fetus too. And if the fetus survived, the circulatory problems that caused the Saudi transplant to fail could only get worse during pregnancy, when blood volume increases dramatically...