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...wasn't until a few years later that one of Serzone's rare but decidedly significant side effects began to leak out: liver damage, sometimes requiring a transplant and in extreme cases resulting in death. Bristol-Myers announced in 2002 that it would stop selling the drug in the Netherlands and Sweden, and eventually withdrew it from all of Europe and Canada. The FDA's only response in the U.S. has been to require a black-box warning on the label, stating in part, "Cases of life-threatening hepatic failure have been reported in patients treated with Serzone." Over...
Noah (Harrison Chad), an 8-year-old boy whose mother has died and who resents his new stepmother, idolizes Caroline but is frustrated by her coldness. His stepmother Rose (Veanne Cox), a New York transplant, tries reaching out to the maid but settles instead for enlisting her help in disciplining Noah. Annoyed that he continually leaves change in his pants pockets, Rose tells Caroline to keep anything she finds. It will teach him a lesson; she could use the money...
...that there are now better treatments, including more effective preparations of insulin, closer monitoring of blood sugar and earlier intervention for complications. Even more promising are current attempts to make an end run around the disease. A case in point is Gary Kleiman, 50, who has had two kidney transplants and lost most of his eyesight since being diagnosed at age 6. Today Kleiman is one of 300 patients worldwide who have received a transplant of pancreatic islet cells. For the first time since age 6, Kleiman does not need insulin injections. "It's been an amazing journey," he says...
Kleiman's physician, Dr. Camillo Ricordi of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, is one of the pioneers who have refined islet-cell transplants. And while a pancreatic-cell transplant may sound like a cure, Ricordi is quick to point out that it is not. First, there is the challenge of preventing a patient's body from rejecting the transplanted cells, and second, there is the challenge of shutting off the immune response that still wants to kill off islet cells...
...part, Frist says, "my leadership style is pretty simple: define a mission, be able to write it on a single card in a single sentence." The kindly exterior has always masked his aggressive nature. Heart-transplant surgeons are like that. "They are people who are disciplined, are focused, are no-nonsense," Frist says. "The timid people in medicine don't go into the field of cutting hearts out and putting them in." Tom Daschle would surely agree...