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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...
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...
...needs," is how Dr. Joshua Hare at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Md., describes it. The problem usually develops over several years, leading to fatigue, shortness of breath and a buildup of fluid, or congestion, in the body. When the degenerative process is sufficiently advanced, a heart transplant may be called...
...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...