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UM Doctors Show Ways To Improve Success Of Pancreas Transplants

Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center have developed a new approach to treating long-term diabetic patients by transplanting their pancreas alone. The study found that using two new anti-rejection drugs, Prograf and Cellcept, resulted in a one-year pancreas survival rate of 77 percent for patients.

SourceUniversity of Maryland Medical Center·DateNov 4, 1996

Hershey Wins New Artificial Heart Contract

Researchers at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center are developing an electromechanical artificial heart to save thousands of lives. The device is expected to be widely available by 2005 and could implant over 50,000 patients per year.

SourcePenn State·DateSep 25, 1996