Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Want to try again?" She holds her breath as the second hand advances and bites her cheeks while Stubs tickles her with a paper flower. But when Stubs gives the girl's mother a rubber clown nose in a red-nose "transplant," the tiny patient erupts with laughter. For a few moments, at least, Dorothy's mind is off the pain and trauma of being...
Over the years, Murray and his research teamconquered other obstacles in the field oftransplantation. In 1959 Murray performed asuccessful transplant between non-identical twins,and discovered that a low dose of radiationlessened the chance that the foreign organ wouldbe rejected...
...radiation technique had potentially fatalside effects, however, and it was not until 1962,when a drug called azathioprine was discovered tosuppress the immune system and allow the body toreceive a foreign organ, that Murray was able tosuccessfully transplant the kidney of an unrelatedcadaver...
...patients dying of burns, who could have survived if you could transplant skin from one person to another," Murray says...
Bosze's attorneys argue that agreeing to a transplant would benefit not only Jean-Pierre but the twins too, by sparing them the trauma of knowing that their half brother died when they might have been able to save him. Their effort echoes a 1969 Kentucky case in which a court ordered a mentally impaired young man to donate a kidney to his ailing brother. It reasoned that the retarded man would be devastated by his brother's death...