British girl's heart heals itself after transplant

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Source: By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng
LONDON –

British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.

After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart.

But she also had a price to pay: the drugs Clark took to prevent her body from rejecting the donated heart led to malignant cancer that required chemotherapy.

Details of Clark's revolutionary transplant and follow-up care were published online Tuesday in the medical journal Lancet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_heart_transplant


Link to Lancet article (6 pages, in PDF format)http://www.thelancet.com/
Article at TheLancet.com is in the center column, after the feature article.

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1. But.. but... but...

I thought the British NHS was a disaster?! I thought that socialized medicine was inferior in every way to the US system? I thought that without a profit motive, innovation in healthcare would grind to a halt? Did Sean Hannity lie to me?

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2. If Sean Hannity's lips are moving then, yes, he is indeed lying to you.

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