The News:
Transplant gain could end need for drugs
By Alicia ChangThe Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/24/2008 12:41:48 AM MST
LOS ANGELES — In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. The treatment involves weakening the patient's immune system, then giving the recipient bone marrow from the person who donated the organ. In one experiment, four of five kidney recipients were off immune-suppressing medicines up to five years later.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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