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French law offered little guidance, and so the whole case rested on exquisitely philosophical arguments about what the dead man's frozen sperm really was. An organ transplant? An inheritable piece of property? State Prosecutor Yves Lesec, siding with the sperm bank, argued that it was part of the dead man's body, even though separated from that body. The dead man had a basic right to "physical integrity," the prosecutor concluded, saying in effect that his widow had no more right to his sperm than to his feet or ears. Not so, retorted Parpalaix's lawyer...
Doctors at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) late last night performed their fourth human heart transplant, nearly six months to the day after their first such procedure...
Many of the new methods of treating sparsely covered scalps are based on a transplant technique developed in the 1950s: about 50 "plugs," each consisting of twelve to 15 hairs with follicles intact, are removed from the back of the head and implanted in the bald spots. But the process is tedious and expensive. Transplanting each plug costs $25, and three to four sessions may be necessary. Moreover, not everyone has enough hair to provide sufficient plugs...
...book Life and Death on 10 West, Eric Lax ventures to the other side of the consulting room. Working with physicians, Lax explains the complexities of a radical bone-marrow transplant technique that is now proving 50% effective in treating some types of leukemia. The result is a model of medical writing for the layman. The astonishing procedure, used by Dr. Robert Gale and his colleagues at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, is described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self...
...cited the recent liver transplant at Boston's Children's Hospital as being a direct result of experimentation with monkeys at Harvard labs...