Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another Holworthy transplant who is a member of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the Harvard Krokodiloes said the University's plan could backfire...
When a patient undergoes a transplant, there is a risk of the body rejection the new organ. Drugs like FK506 suppress the immune system's inclination to act against, and possibly reject, the new organ...
...anything, Michael Apted's "Blink" is pretty damn scary. Madeleine Stowe plays Emma Brody, a woman who receives a cornea transplant after twenty years of blindness only to witness a murder, In a new twist on the "blind-women erotic thriller," hallucinations plague Emma as a result of the surgery. Emma's eyes and brain, so unused to processing sight, replay images long after she has actually seen them. Director Apted and script writer Dana Stevens milk this replay mechanism dry in the name of frightening their audience, The only images that pop up on emma are horrible ones...
...fears that a heart attack or stroke could leave him on life support rather than kill him outright. "Serving a four-year sentence on life support," Murphy shudders. "That's scary." Ironically, his life seeps away just minutes from the Mayo Clinic, home to a world-famous heart- transplant program. "It drives me crazy," he says. He stops to breathe. "I'm sitting here dying, and there's nothin' I can do about...
...week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...