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Los cirujanos de trasplantes estan esperando el dia en que los tejidos no esenciales para vivir sean donados a otros de manera rutinaria; mientras, se dedican a reemplazar manos, traqueas y nervios Se cree que los trasplantes mas novedosos son pocos, ya que ninguna organizacion central lleva un recuento y no hay manera de saber cuanta gente se beneficiaria de ellos si prueban ser exitosos a largo plazo. Eminentes cirujanos de trasplantes preven un futuro donde puedan ponerles nuevos rostros a pacientes quemados; darle a una mujer senos nuevos, o incluso un utero; trasplantar penes; y reconstruir mandibulas y tejidos del cuello a pacientes con cancer, heridas de bala, mordidas de perro o lesiones de accidentes

A case in point is the encephalitis outbreak that is blamed for at least three deaths in New York City. Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the New York City Health Department said the cause was the mosquito-borne St. Louis virus, which had never been identified in New York City before. But last weekend the C.D.C., responding to findings from laboratory tests performed by Dr. Tracey McNamara, a pathologist at the Bronx Zoo, announced that the outbreak was caused by an even rarer zebra: the West Nile virus from Africa. Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, of the Emerging Diseases Laboratory at the University of California at Irvine, confirmed the findings. ''C.D.C. would not have made the diagnosis of West Nile virus as quickly without Dr. McNamara's persistent medical sleuthing,'' Dr. Duane J. Gubler, the head of the C.D.C.'s arbovirus field station in Fort Collins, Colo., said in an interview

She is Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis, 59, who worked for four years as a nurse before going to college and then medical school. Dr. DeAngelis will leave her job as a vice dean at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and will step down as editor of the A.M.A.'s journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. DeAngelis's appointment as the 15th editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association comes as many scientific journals are under pressure to increase income for the professional societies and companies that own them. Dr. DeAngelis's predecessor, Dr. George D. Lundberg, was dismissed in January, accused of publishing a paper on whether college students think oral sex is ''having sex'' to influence President Clinton's impeachment trial. The dismissal fueled a controversy over the journal's editorial independence

Dr. Gunter Blobel, a cellular and molecular biologist at Rockefeller University in New York City, won the 1999 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for discovering that proteins carry signals that help them find their correct locations within the cell

There are a billion protein molecules in an average human cell. Cells are constantly dividing or being repaired to replace those damaged or lost to everyday wear and tear. The mystery that Dr. Blobel (pronounced BLO-bul) helped solve was learning how the cells regulate internal traffic so the protein molecules ''go to the right address,'' he said in an interview yesterday in his fifth floor office at Rockefeller University. Dr. Richard Klausner, the head of the National Cancer Institute, said many advances in recent decades, including his own research, were in some way derived from Dr. Blobel's findings. ''Gunter's work in many ways initiated the whole modern era of what we call molecular cell biology,'' Dr. Klausner said in an interview. ''It began to merge the observational approaches of cell biology, looking, describing structure,'' he said, and so scientists could ''figure out how molecular information underlies the structure and functioning of the cell.'' Dr. Blobel, who recalled witnessing the bombing of Dresden as a child, said he was donating most of the $960,000 in prize money to the Friends of Dresden, an independent American group that supports the reconstruction, restoration and preservation of Dresden's artistic and architectural legacy. The group is helping rebuild the Frauenkirche, a bell-shaped church that was a fixture in prewar Dresden. Dr. Blobel, who is not Jewish, said he is also donating part of the award to the reconstruction of a synagogue in Dresden

American Home Products, the manufacturer of the only licensed vaccine to prevent the most common cause of severe diarrhea among infants and children, announced Friday that it was withdrawing the vaccine from the market because of concerns that it could cause a painful, potentially fatal bowel obstruction. The diarrhea is caused by the rotavirus, and last year the government recommended that every infant in the United States get the protective vaccine. One million children swallowed three doses of the vaccine, RotaShield, at 2, 4 and 6 months of age, the company said. Friday, prompted by more than 100 reports of intussusception to the agency - more than half of them within a week of vaccination - American Home Products has asked doctors and health workers to return all unused vaccine immediately. It said it would wait for completed studies to determine whether withdrawal of the vaccine would be permanent

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American Home Products, the manufacturer of the only licensed vaccine to prevent the most common cause of severe diarrhea among infants and children, announced today that it was withdrawing the vaccine from the market because of concerns that it could cause a painful and potentially fatal bowel obstruction. The diarrhea is caused by the rotavirus, and last year the Government recommended that every infant in the United States get the protective vaccine. One million children swallowed three doses of the vaccine, Rotashield, at 2, 4 and 6 months of age, the company said. But in July the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Federal agency based here, said no one should get the vaccine because a program that monitors side effects suggested a link between the vaccine and the bowel condition, called intussusception

Last week federal health officials called on doctors to stop using the standard rotavirus vaccine, RotaShield, at least until November. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for suspending the use of RotaShield due to reports of 20 babies who had developed a painful blockage of the bowel after swallowing the vaccine

Dr. Gunter Blobel, a cellular and molecular biologist at New York's Rockefeller University, won the 1999 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering that proteins carry signals that act as ZIP codes, helping them find their correct locations within the cell. The research that Blobel has conducted for 30 years has had an 'immense impact' on studies of the cell and helps explain the molecular mechanisms behind diseases such as cystic fibrosis, a condition that creates a certain type of kidney stone in young children, and other hereditary illnesses, the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced. There are a billion protein molecules in an average human cell. Cells are constantly dividing or being repaired to replace those damaged or lost to everyday wear and tear. The mystery that Blobel helped solve was learning how the cells regulate internal traffic so the protein molecules 'go to the right address,' he said in an interview. Blobel, who recalled witnessing the World War II bombing of Dresden as a child, said he was donating most of the $960,000 in prize money to the Friends of Dresden, an independent American group that supports the reconstruction, restoration and preservation of Dresden's artistic and architectural legacy. The group is helping rebuild the Frauenkirche, a bell-shaped church that was a fixture in prewar Dresden. Blobel, who is not Jewish, said he is also donating part of the award to the reconstruction of a synagogue in Dresden