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EDITOR: Paul Kuo, MD

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• NASA Collaboration Focuses on Biotechnology Research
• Organ Donations Up 4% in the First Half of 2000
• Heart Patients Needed for REMATCH Trial
• Jarvik 2000 LVAD Implanted on a Permanent Basis
• Study: Heart Transplants Help Sickest Patients Most
• UNOS Data Include Survival Rates Based on Age
• Infertility Group Urges Couples to Donate Embryos for Stem Cell Research

• Xenotransplantation: Two Teams Clone Pigs; Pig Virus Reported in Mice
• NIH Guidelines OK Stem Cell Research in Embryos
• Survival Improving for Canadian Transplant Patients
• Research Briefs from Transplantation Congress
• UNOS to Host Forum on Liver Allocation Policy
• Regulatory News: Rapamune, Simulect, Thymoglobulin

• Geron Cuts Roslin's Xenotransplantation Funding
• UNOS Proposes Liver Plan
• HCFA Halves Time for Medicare Approval for Transplant Centers
• CellCept's Indications Now Will Cover Liver Rejection
• One Lot of Thymoglobulin Recalled; Novartis Announces Program for Switching Cyclosporines
• NEJM Addresses Strategies for Increasing the Donor Pool

• UNOS, Mexico Agree to Share Transplant Information
• Enrollment Underway to Study Edmonton Protocol
• Two Groups Find Gene for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
• First Recipient of the Jarvik 2000 LVAD Gets a New Heart
• Journal Briefs: Troponin I Levels; Natural History of HCV
• Transplant Milestones Reported: A First and a 100th

• SangCya Recalled; Absorption Reduced with Apple Juice
• Ten Centers Chosen to Test the Edmonton Protocol
• Synthesized Scorpion Venom May Have Immunosuppressive Uses
• Bioengineered Corneas Restore Vision in First Human Trials
• Heart Transplantation: Pump Use in a Child; Keeping the Right Ventricle
• UNOS Publishes New Membership Directory

• Cord Blood Transplants Fare Better than Bone Marrow Transplants
• Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Judged Safe
• University of Pittsburgh to Test Liver Assist Device
• Children Given Preference for Livers from Pediatric Donors
• Gene Targeting a Success in Sheep
• Studies Focus on Indicators of Heart Disease

• Government Revises Xenotransplantation Guideline
• BMA Launches Campaign, Publishes Paper on Transplantation
• Islet Cell Transplants Spur Enthusiasm; NEJM Releases Findings Early
• Journal Briefs
• Newspaper Explores Hope, Ethics Associated with Hand Transplants
• In the News: UNOS Competition; Transplants in HIV Patients

• $10 Million Study Focuses on Growing a Human Heart Ventricle
• Continuous Donor Registration Drive is Launched
• ASTS Creates Registry to Track Live Donor Livers
• Islet Cells Render Diabetic Patients Insulin-Free
• Graft Survival Examined with Various Immunosuppressive Drugs
• Journal Briefs
• FDA OKs Gengraf, a Capsule Form of Cyclosporine
• Hepatitis C Drug Approvals; Tests Available to Public

• Domino Liver Transplants in the News
• Pittsburgh Centers to Look for Cure for Type 1 Diabetes
• General Motors to Launch $1 Million Donor Drive
• Bile Duct Cancer Treatment Reported by Mayo Researchers
• Journal Briefs: Detecting Events After Transplantation
• UNOS Enhances Website with Professional Services Section

• UNOS Compares 1998 and 1999 Transplant Data
• Virginia OPOs Merge
• Transplanted Hand Reportedly Facing Rejection
• Cloned Cows Avoid Early Aging
• Journal Briefs: Survival for Diabetic Transplant Recipients; Diagnosing Cardiomyopathy
• Regulatory News: Trials for ISAtx247; Diabetes Drug OKd
• Business News from Eon Labs, SangStat, Thoratec

• Organ Allocation Wrangling Continues
• Groups React to Legislative Maneuvers on Allocation Issues
• Laparoscopy Credited With Increased Kidney Donations
• Beth Israel Deaconess Plans to Begin Liver Transplants
• UNOS Technology Recognized by the Smithsonian
• SangCya OKd in Germany

• Pigs Cloned in a Step Toward Xenotransplantation
• HHS Rules Final at Last
• Company to Use Liver Cells from Non-Heart-Beating Donors
• Rezulin Withdrawn From Market Amid Reports of Liver Damage
• Journal Briefs: Live Liver Donation; Growth Hormone; An Experimental Therapy
• Two companies recently announced steps they have taken toward the development of new immunosuppressive drugs

• Kidney Transplantation: Survival Steadily Increasing
• Journal Briefs: Daclizumab in Heart Transplantation; Hyperammonemia in Lung Transplantation
• UNOS Reports Growth in Numbers of Living Organ Donors, Minority Transplants
• UNOS Board OKs Liver Policy for Submission to HHS
• Medscape Launches Transplantation Website
• Donor Organs at a Record High for New Jersey Network
• Groups Promote Kidney Disease Awareness

• Racism Charge Leads to Overhaul of British Transplant System
• UNOS Proposes Liver Distribution Policy
• Opposition to Allocation Rules Continues
• Liver Disease Alleviated in Rodents: Two Studies
• VAD Implanted with Minimally Invasive Surgery
• VA Begins Study of Hepatitis C in Veterans

• Cyclosporine and St. John's Wort: A Bad Mix
• Combined Liver and Bone Marrow Transplant Reported
• Regulatory News
• Double-Arm Transplant Recipient Reports Sensation
• Marrow Program Facilitates Stem Cell Transplant
• Business Briefs

• In a World First, Patient Gets Two New Hands and Forearms
• Hand and Larynx Recipients Continue To Do Well on Transplant Anniversaries
• UNOS Receives Its Largest-Ever Grant: $1 Million
• Domino Liver Transplants: Firsts Reported
• Theseus Announces Milestone
• Drug Briefs: Isotechnika and SciClone Plan Studies

• Lower Mortality Rates Reported in High-Volume Liver Centers
• New Coalition Supports National Organ Transplant Act Reauthorization
• Journal Briefs
• Drug News: Hepatitis B and C
• Company Seeks OK for Tablet Form of Rapamune
• Philadelphia Area Continues to Lead Nation in Organ Donations
• Girl Given a Stranger's Lung Lobe Dies

• Science: Stem Cell Work is Top 1999 Scientific Achievement
• Fate of Allocation Rules Still Uncertain Despite Legislation
• Hepatitis A Vaccine OK for Liver, Kidney Recipients
• Scientists Construct Human Cornea Equivalents
• Roche Announces Grantees for Transplant Studies
• UNOS Shores Up for the New Millenium

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