Word: transplanting
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...Harvard Medical School hearing Monday, the first of its kind in the nation, will consider ways to increase the number of organs available for transplant in the United States...
...hearing will emphasize "the importance of being an organ donor in a nation where 47,000 people are awaiting life-saving transplant operations," said Kennedy press aide Darcy...
...bone-marrow work and solid-organ transplant work have traditionally been two separate fields of medicine. "The big misconception," says Starzl, "was not realizing that the acceptance and tolerance of solid-organ grafts are due to the same mechanisms described by Medawar. There is a seamless work of transplantation immunology. It's so damn simple, it's crushing...
...work being done is with mice, dogs and monkeys, which have been used successfully in assimilation studies by James Gozzo, dean of the Bouve College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Boston's Northeastern University, as well as by other researchers, including Judith Thomas, director of the Transplant Center at the University of Alabama. They have found that by first transplanting some donor bone marrow into the recipient animal, it is possible to trick the animal's immune system into accepting a solid-organ transplant almost as if it were native to its own body--just as Starzl suggests will...
More Americans die from this disease each year than from any other condition, prompting physicians to explore a host of ways to keep hearts healthy. For patients whose only recourse is a heart transplant, one bold method, pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon, involves increasing the efficiency of the heart by cutting away a portion of the muscle of the left ventricle, the chamber from which blood is pumped to the rest of the body. Surgeons at several facilities in the U.S. have begun using the technique in trials and hope to improve on its current 40% death rate...