Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rays apparently caused the infection, and the patient's immune system, weakened by antirejection drugs, could not easily fight it. High doses of antibiotics reduced the resulting fever. But when tests showed the liver was excreting too little bile, the man's condition was downgraded to critical. A similar transplant on another patient was postponed until doctors resolve the situation...
...hardly the first time a human had received an animal transplant; kidneys and hearts have been shifted from chimpanzees, baboons and monkeys into people for decades, though never successfully. What may make the difference this time is an experimental antirejection drug known as FK-506; doctors hope it will keep the recipient's immune system from attacking the new liver as a foreign object. Though the patient had symptoms of a mild rejection reaction by week's end, it wasn't considered serious. Otherwise, said a hospital spokeswoman, "he's doing really well. It's almost scary...
Last year's speakers were Dr. Jonas Salk, whodeveloped the first polio vaccine in 1954;Professor of Surgery emeritus Dr. Joseph E.Murray, co-winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize inphysiology or medicine for performing the firstkidney transplant in 1954; and U.S. Secretary ofHealth and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan
...slice of life from the real world. Make that The Real World, MTV's new 13-week documentary series that puts a '90s spin on An American Family, PBS's 1973 cinema-verite chronicle of the troubled Loud family. The producers selected seven young New Yorkers (one a transplant from Alabama) ranging in age from 19 to 25, put them together in a furnished loft in SoHo and set the cameras rolling for three months. The idea was to keep a video diary of their interactions, altercations and (possibly) romantic entanglements -- to see, as the show puts it, "what happens...
Last year's speakers were Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine in 1954; Professor of Surgery emeritus Dr. Joseph Murray, co-winner of the 1990 Noble Prize in physiology or medicine for performing the first kidney transplant in 1954; and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan...