Doctors report transplant breakthrough
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_he_me/transplant_breakthrough"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080123/capt.nyol99001232243.transplant_breakthrough_nyol990.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=ID2xh_eRW6yLIL5FEK0k4A--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Los Angeles patient Derek Besenfelder, a Public Relations director for a plastic surgery clinic, is reflected on a mirror as he poses in Beverly Hills, Calif. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Besenfelder who received a kidney transplant from his mother along with a bone marrow three years ago, has been able to discontinue taking anti-rejections drugs. The breakthrough in experimenta organl transplants saves recipients from taking drugs for the rest of their lives to prevent organ rejection. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" border="0" /></a>AP - 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.</p><br clear="all"/>
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