Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.

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"Women who have an abortion may run an increased risk of subsequently giving birth to premature or low-weight babies, according to a study." Click on Read Article to read this Guardian article discussing the journal article.

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Red-faced cops have now been given the slip twice in a week by hospitalized inmates they uncuffed for treatment. The strikingly similar jailbreaks happened within two days of each other.

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Alpha Dog Goes To The Emergency Room

I did, indeed spend a number of hours in the emergency room at Mount Sinai hospital today.

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