UPMC, Once Transplant King, Takes Risks to Regain Crown (1)
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a pioneer in transplant medicine, was performing about 600 liver transplants a year in the mid-1980s. But how the mighty can fall. As other U.S. hospitals, including some whose transplant docs trained at UPMC, jumped into the lucrative surgical service, the health system’s volume fell to 132 liver transplants in 2001. Enter Amadeo Marcos, a colorful surgeon who promised to double the number of liver transplants in his first ...
Stem Cell Method Seen as Success (2)
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Physicians completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells to fashion an organ, according to a medical article.
Eight Real-Life Doctor Frankensteins Who Pushed the Boundaries of Life and Death [Mad Science] (2)
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Mary Shelley helped advance the science fiction genre with her tale of a scientist who brings a man built of corpses to life. But in real life, plenty of mad and not-so-mad scientists have played with human and animal bodies (and body parts) to gain a greater understanding of the limits on life. After the jump, right real-life scientists who have performed shocking experiments on the nature life and death. Johann Dippel: An actual inhabitant ...
