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Nobel winner Joseph Murray dies; performed first successful kidney transplant
BOSTON — Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham...
Tags: Harvard University, World War II (1939-1945), American Medical Association, Twins, Immune System
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E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize
E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,...
Tags: General Practitioners, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Heart Disease, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Boston
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Etta James is terminally ill, live-in doctor says
Ministry of GossipEtta James is suffering from chronic leukemia and considered terminally ill, according to her doctor. Etta James is best known for songs including "At Last" and "Tell Mama."... -
Court asked to reconsider ruling on bone marrow compensation
Nation NowBone marrow transplant: The Obama administration has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow compensation to people donating bone marrow cells harvested from their bloodstreams.... -
Bone marrow transplant 'gets rid of' sickle cell anemia
Researchers have for the first time performed a successful bone marrow transplant to cure sickle cell disease in adults, a feat that could expand the procedure to more of the 70,000 Americans with the disease -- and possibly some other diseases as well....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Medical Procedures and Tests, National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, Blood
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Dr. Ernest McCulloch dies at 84; he and research partner were first to isolate and identify a stem cell
Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to bone marrow transplants and eventually to what researchers believe will be a host of treatments for a broad...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Toronto Star, Hospitals and Clinics, Research, Science and Technology
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'Style Celebration' with 'Desperate Housewives' costume designer Cate Adair will offer jewelry with a heart
All The RageCate Adair, the costume designer responsible for dolling up the cast of "Desperate Houswives," is going to be dressing for a different kind of success on Saturday, with plans to bring her style savvy from Wisteria Lane to Long Beach...... -
Blowback: Pay bone-marrow donors? Give it a shot
Opinion L.A.Compensating marrow donors has the potential to save lives while at the same time doing no harm. We ought to see, under medically supervised conditions, if it will work. Our patients, quite literally, cannot afford to wait.... -
'Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority'--Federal Judge Roger Vinson on Obama healthcare law
Top of the TicketFull text and selected excerpts of Judge Roger Vinson's federal court decision declaring the new healthcare law unconstitutional.... -
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Young actress in 'Lion King'
Shannon Tavarez, an 11-year-old girl who starred on Broadway in "The Lion King" and whose battle with leukemia won the hearts of many, died Monday at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. She...Tags: Nazi Party, Charity, Human Body, Children, Dominican Republic
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Mary Travers dies at 72; folk singer performed with the trio Peter, Paul and Mary
Mary Travers, the clarion-voiced female third of the quintessential folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary whose harmony-laden recordings of politically minded songs by Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ushered them to the top of the sales charts in the 1960s, died...Tags: Joan Baez, Peter, Paul, and Mary (music group), Noel Stookey, Pete Seeger, John Denver
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