Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center announced last week the formation of the first interdisciplinary transplant research center in New England. Anthony P. Monaco, Medawar Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, will be the center’s first director...
According to Monaco, the center performs the largest number of transplant surgeries in New England, between 120 and 130 per year...
Monaco said the center is unique in its interdisciplinary goal, concentrating on all aspects of transplant surgery, but especially recovery and therapy...
...heart failed him, several times, but he continued jetting around the world to get more stories and interview leaders ranging from the awful--Saddam Hussein--to the awesome--Nelson Mandela--to the truly historic--Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, hours before he probably would have died, he received a heart transplant. He bravely endured near fatal attempts by his body to reject the new heart and came back to work and to more adventures. When he fell ill late last year, the doctors didn't think he would make it past Christmas. But in March, when TIME celebrated its 75th birthday...
...There are thousands of people who need a bond marrow transplant to survive," Harley said. "IT can save someone's life...