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...though, it might be difficult to share such faith and optimism. The surgery Fox received is not helpful to all patients, nor is it a permanent cure. Though one of the most important legislative acts of the Clinton Administration was the lifting of the ban on fetal tissue transplant research to aid Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in 1993, increased funding and public awareness are still lacking in the search for a true cure for the disease...
DIED. VLADIMIR DEMIKHOV, 82, pioneering transplant surgeon; in an undisclosed location in Russia. Demikhov performed the world's first heart transplant...
Leukemia and other cancer patients who need bone-marrow transplants may now have a larger pool of potential donors. Israeli and Italian doctors say they have vastly improved the odds of a successful transplant between family members whose tissue types don't match perfectly. It's done by transplanting large numbers of stem cells--the bone-marrow cells that make blood. In Japan, doctors report that sophisticated DNA analysis is enabling them to better match donors and recipients who are not related...
Still, surgeons who perform radical, headline-grabbing operations know the value of good publicity. So it was something of a shock to an international team poised to perform the world's first successful hand transplant to discover that they had chosen a man with a record as long, so to speak...
...they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation--especially given how badly Hallam wanted that arm. He was so eager to be a guinea pig, in fact, that he'd also registered with a U.S. group that had hoped to be the first to transplant a hand. The winning team insisted they were not in a race with the Americans or anyone else, but they couldn't help crowing last week. "They may well be in a race with us," Australian microsurgeon Dr. Earl Owen told the New York Times, "but they will never catch...