Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the afflicted mice are born relatively healthy, the transplant therapy was able to be used on newborns, rather than embryos...
...tonsillectomy can go bad, imagine all the things that can happen with a bone-marrow transplant, a coronary-bypass operation or an experiment in gene therapy. As medicine has become more complex and the pace of technological change has accelerated, the opportunities for error have multiplied. And when doctors are constantly testing new treatments, as they are at Dana-Farber, they cannot fall back on years of experience...
...just finished two terms as governor, established an exploratory committee to raise funds for a campaign. He is expected to decide whether to run by May. Casey, who opposes abortion rights, has complained that the Clinton Administration is filled with "left-wing ideologues." He had a heart and liver transplant in 1993. If he does run, he'll be running uphill.TIME Washington correspondent Michael Duffysays Clinton's approval rating among Democrats has dramatically improved this year, especially in early primary states, where Casey would have to start strong in order to mount a viable challenge...
...finally put into effect. In Bangalore police arrested Dr. K.S. Siddaraj, head of nephrology at the government-run Victoria Hospital. He was accused of having referred his poorer patients to private hospitals in the city as potential kidney donors and of receiving a 15% commission on every resulting transplant. Also arrested were a general practitioner, Dr. Syed Audil Ahmed, and two alleged middlemen. They were charged with having induced or deceived an estimated 1,000 poor villagers into donating kidneys to recipients from India, Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, who paid as much as $10,000 for a transplant...
Altogether Lee embezzled $119,881.26, more thanenough to pay for the entire cost of a life-savingbone marrow transplant, a Dana-Farber spokespersonsaid...