61.   And scientists have a success story for an experimental technique that could make life for transplant patients easier.

62.   Australian doctors have found a drug for heart transplant patients that can reduce their need for an expensive anti-rejection medicine.

63.   But doctors might be able to achieve the same result by giving transplant patients enough stem cells, which are contained in blood and bone marrow, he said.

64.   Cyclosporine, taken by most transplant patients, suppresses the immune system to prevent the body from rejecting the new organ.

65.   Doctors in Japan complete liver transplant involving four patients.

66.   Doctors were quick to caution that the findings will not affect treatment of transplant patients because it applies only to cancer that has already formed.

67.   For years, the Department of Health and Human Services has been fighting to change the way scarce organs are distributed to waiting transplant patients.

68.   It would also allow the network to keep data like that in the new study secret from everyone but transplant patients.

69.   Now they have shown that in heart transplant patients, primitive cells from the patient travel to the new heart and grow new muscle and blood vessels.

70.   Other organs from the donor went to five other transplant patients.