Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard professor is suing two Harvard teaching hospitals, charging them with age and disability discrimination after they released him from his administrative responsibilities as chief of organ transplant programs last April...
...major issue is a surgeon, world-renowned and nationally-renowned who has developed the kidney transplant program at the Deaconess Hospital for the past 27 years, and he has just been given by Harvard a full professorship of immunology," said Anthony I. Sahyoun, assistant clinical professor of surgery. "Suddenly, he finds himself being pushed out by a young person at the hospital who is ambitious...
...from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
...affected by the disease more often than any other racial group) has proved, for complex genetic reasons, especially difficult. The technique could also boost the damaged immune systems of AIDS patients, provided scientists first find a way to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the AIDS virus within the transplant candidate. "If the virus could be controlled," says Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, one of the study's coauthors, "the immune system could be replaced...
Suffering from Alpha1, a genetic form of emphysema, Pierce received a double-lung transplant in 1993. After intense rehabilitation, she now competes in bicycling events around the world. Last year she started Team Alpha 1, whose members participate in American Lung Association rides across the country to raise awareness of the disease. "This is a tool for patients to live as full a life as they can," Pierce says. "The body can work again...