Heart Transplant Pioneer Shumway Dies (AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060211/ap_on_he_me/obit_shumway"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060210/capt.fx902102055.obit_shumway_fx9.jpg?x=108&y=130&sig=6wXdM6qTbfUnoUKJKY1plg--" align="left" height="130" width="108" alt="In this photo provided by Stanford University shows Dr. Norman Shumway, left, performing an operation in this undated file photo in Stanford, Calif. Shumway was the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant operation in the United States and a leading pioneer in the field, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2006, of lung cancer, according to a spokeswoman at Stanford University. He was 83.. (AP Photo/Stanford University, ho)" border="0" /></a>AP - Twenty-eight years ago, Dr. Norman Shumway performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States on a 56-year-old man. Although that patient died a short time later, in the years to come, the operation became the reason that thousands more were able to live.</p><br clear=all>