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Articles in Dec 15, 2005, issue of Transplant News
- FDA approves first test to screen WNV in organ, tissue, cell, blood donors; will be marketed by Chiron
- French first to perform a partial face transplant; critics raise timing, recipient suitability issues
by Jim Warren - Vertex to start Phase II trial for investigational Oral HCV protease inhibitor, FDA grants Fast Track designation
- Experts question Hwang's stem cell cloning research; Schatten wants name removed from Science article
- FDA warns MS patients not to use Campath
- Infusion of patient's own bone marrow into damaged heart muscle increased left ventricular function, exercise ability
- First patient enrolled in artificial liver device Phase I trial at Albert Einstein
- Donate Life Rose Parade float to make history by honoring involvement of Hispanics in donation, transplantation
- National effort to educate African Americans about importance of organ/tissue donation launched in November
- Five Points of Life to promote organ, tissue, bone marrow, blood donation looking for riders
- Significant CKD risk factors not being properly addressed - NKF's KEEP
- Statins can lower heart attack risk in kidney transplant, CKD patients