Transplants routine after half-century
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Fifty years ago today, Boston surgeon Joseph Murray transplanted a kidney from Ronald Herrick into his identical twin, Richard. It was the first time an organ from one
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BELGRADE, Maine -- Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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Kidneys from young donors should be matched to young recipients to extend the life of kidney transplants, says a study presented Oct. 31 at the the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting in St.
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When Americans sat down for Sunday dinner on Dec. 7, 63 years ago, they had little idea that when they cleared the dishes away their lives would have been changed forever.
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Scientists may be a step closer to transplanting a kidney without the need for long-term medication.
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Researchers from Kentucky and the Netherlands say they are ready to perform a face transplant. The procedure involves replacing someone&#39;s entire face with a dead donor&#39;s face.
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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands says in a new medical journal article that it is ready to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step &#151; learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - "It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.    Doctors hailed the breakthrough procedure, saying it sent a "big message of hope" to cancer patients who have lost their fertility and could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause...
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BELGRADE, Maine - Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, is to start screening patients for what will be the first ever face transplant. A review board has given the clinic permission to carry out the procedure.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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NEW YORK -- Life begins at 50? Why not, if you're Martina Navratilova, and you hit the half-century mark running on Oct. 18?
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.