1.   Baylor, like most transplant programs, requires patients to abstain from drugs and drinking for six months before putting them on the list, Crippin said.

2.   Already, he is moving to deal with the heart transplant program at the KU Medical Center.

3.   But Dr. Douglas Hanto, director of the adult liver transplant program at the University of Cincinnati and an opponent of the rule, disagreed.

4.   But Hurewitz was healthy, and he was in the hands of a renowned liver transplant program that had never experienced a donor fatality.

5.   But only the transplant programs were recommended for complete elimination.

6.   But now, three years after its ambitious launch, the transplant program is on the chopping block.

7.   Dr. Lana Tsao, medical director of the transplant program, told him they had a heart for him.

8.   Douglas is director of the Mayo liver clinic and medical director of the liver transplant program, which is just getting under way.

9.   Dr. J. Thomas Rosenthal, surgical director of the kidney transplant program, performed the operation late Saturday night.

10.   Each hospital retained its own neurosurgery service, its own liver transplant program, neither hospital wanting to yield control to the other.