51. They underscored the importance of getting the right balance of the two drugs if they are both used in transplant patients. 52. Today, she is the longest surviving pediatric heart transplant patient. 53. Transplant patients usually depend on steroids to prevent rejection of the transplanted tissue. 54. Transplant patients, of course, are already at risk from diseases. 55. Organ transplant patients who must take an expensive anti-rejection drug might get more for their money by drinking grapefruit juice. 56. A company that manufactures a form of blood plasma issued a warning years after six liver transplant patients who received the plasma died. 57. A transplant patient may never regain feeling of hot and cold in their new hand. 58. A seven-year-old girl, a kidney transplant patient, joined the premier in the celebrations. 59. After two years of public struggle, warring parties are edging toward common ground in a dispute over which transplant patients will get first chance at donated organs. 60. And scientists have an encouraging success story for an experimental technique that could one day make life for transplant patients a lot easier. |