71. Scientists hope the experimental treatment will one day free some transplant patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs the rest of their lives. 72. Researchers said that the preliminary results on healthy adults were encouraging that but more study must be done on actual transplant patients. 73. She hopes she has shown transplant patients can return to active lives, and she wants to encourage organ donation. 74. The couple -- a maintenance worker and a kidney transplant patient -- asked not to be identified because of fear for their safety. 75. There are transplant patients waiting years for a kidney. 76. Transplant patients may not need drugs. 77. Transplant patients must take anti-rejection drugs. 78. Transplant patients must take drugs to suppress their immune systems and prevent organ rejection, and that makes them vulnerable to viruses. 79. Transplant patients can die or need a new transplant when their bodies reject the new organ. 80. Transplant patients need the medications because their immune systems, designed to fight germs, recognize tissue from other people as foreign and attack them. |