Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jean-Pierre Bosze is not likely to be alive a year from now if he does not receive a bone-marrow transplant. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1988, the 12- year-old boy from Hoffman Estates, Ill., has searched in vain for a suitable donor. His father Tamas, his mother and other relatives have had their blood tested, but none has the right type. His doctors have consulted the National Marrow Donor Program of 180,000 potential donors, but the odds of unrelated people matching...
Before his arrival at the hotel, Jackson paid a visit to Prince Turki's father-in-law, Sheik Shams El Deen Al-Fassi, who is at New England Deaconess Hospital for observation related to a recent kidney transplant...
...aiding and abetting suicide is. As yet no charges have been filed, but a Michigan judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Kevorkian from assisting other suicides. The doctor admits to only one regret. Had the medical examiners come more quickly, Adkins' organs might have been harvested for transplant. "She had a good strong heart," he says. "I know, I watched it on the machine...
...Forest transplant. On Canada's Vancouver Island, Boy Scouts and others will remove trees from an old forest that is about to be cut down and replant them 3.2 km (2 miles) away in an area that has already been cleared of vegetation...
...California couple's decision to conceive a baby in order to provide a transplant donor for an ailing older daughter promises both controversy and blessings...