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Surgeons in France announced yesterday they had attached the right hand and forearm of an anonymous donor to the arm of a 48-year-old Australian man whose own hand was amputated after a logging accident in 1989. Theirs was not the first such transplant attempt; at least one previous attempt, in Ecuador in 1964, ended in failure after two weeks when the donor hand was rejected by the body. Although no such transplant is believed to have ever been successful, the team in France said advances in drugs and microsurgery since the attempt in Ecuador gave the procedure a 50 percent chance of turning out well

Surgeons in France announced Thursday that they had attached the right hand and forearm of an anonymous donor to the arm of a 48-year-old Australian man whose hand was amputated after a logging accident in 1989. Theirs was not the first such transplant attempt; at least one previous attempt, in Ecuador in 1964, ended in failure after two weeks, when the donor hand was rejected by the body. Although no such transplant is believed to have been successful, the team in France said advances in drugs and microsurgery give the procedure a 50 percent chance of turning out well

Surgeons in France announced Thursday that they had attached the right hand and forearm of an anonymous donor to the arm of a 48-year- old Australian man whose own hand was amputated after a logging accident in 1989. Theirs was not the first such transplant attempt; at least one previous attempt, in Ecuador in 1964, ended in failure after two weeks when the donor hand was rejected by the body. Although no such transplant is believed to have ever been successful, the team in France said advances in drugs and microsurgery since the attempt in Ecuador gave the procedure a 50 percent chance of turning out well

Clinical research awards are going to three scientists: Dr. Alfred G. Knudson Jr., a former president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia; Dr. Peter C. Nowell, a professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Dr. Janet D. Rowley of the University of Chicago. The three scientists receiving basic medical research awards are Dr. Lee Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle; Dr. Yoshio Masui of the University of Toronto, and Dr. Paul Nurse of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. In 1960, few scientists believed that cancer had a genetic basis. But in that year, Dr. Nowell, working with the late Dr. David Hungerford, shattered that widespread belief by showing such a link to a form of leukemia. Dr. Nowell's team discovered that individuals with chronic myelogenous leukemia had an abnormally small chromosome in all their cancerous white blood cells

Clinical research awards are going to three scientists: Dr. Alfred Knudson Jr., a former president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia; Dr. Peter Nowell, a professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Dr. Janet Rowley of the University of Chicago. The defective gene occurred in the 22nd chromosome and it became known as the Philadelphia chromosome after the city where Nowell worked. In the 1970s, Rowley used a new Swedish chemical staining technique developed to discover that the Philadelphia chromosome's small size resulted from exchanges of pieces of genetic material. A crucial piece of chromosome 22 broke off and moved to chromosome 9, while a piece of chromosome 9 jumped to the breakpoint on the 22nd chromosome

Six scientists who made discoveries dating to 1960 that identified the genetic basis of cancer will receive this year's Albert Lasker awards. Clinical research awards are going to Dr. Alfred Knudson Jr., a former president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia; Dr. Peter Nowell, a professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Dr. Janet Rowley of the University of Chicago. Basic medical research awards are going to Dr. Lee Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle; Dr. Yoshio Masui of the University of Toronto; and Dr. Paul Nurse of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London

Dr. Michael DeBakey moved like a dancer in a pas de deux, anticipating his surgical partner\'s every move during a quadruple bypass operation on a woman at the Methodist Hospital here recently. As DeBakey deftly manipulated scalpels, scissors and forceps for more than three hours, his hands never quivered. What made it an extraordinary operation is that DeBakey, the pioneering heart surgeon, turned 90 earlier this month. With bushy eyebrows, long dark hair combed back on a balding scalp and a tinge of gray on his sideburns, DeBakey looks 20 years younger. Though he takes fewer surgical cases these days, he maintains a whirlwind schedule of travel and consulting. He is celebrating his 50th year at Baylor College of Medicine, and only a disability would make him retire, DeBakey said

Dr. Michael DeBakey moved like a dancer in a pas de deux, anticipating his surgical partner's every move during a quadruple bypass operation on a woman at the Methodist Hospital recently. As DeBakey deftly manipulated scalpels, scissors and forceps for more than three hours, his hands never quivered. What made it an extraordinary operation is that DeBakey, the pioneering heart surgeon, turns 90 on Monday. With bushy eyebrows, long dark hair that is combed back on a balding scalp, and a tinge of gray on his sideburns, DeBakey looks 20 years younger. Though he takes fewer surgical cases these days, he maintains a whirlwind schedule of travel and consulting. He is celebrating his 50th year at Baylor College of Medicine, and only a disability will make him retire, DeBakey said

HOUSTON -- Dr. Michael DeBakey moved like a dancer in a pas de deux, anticipating his surgical partner's every move during a quadruple bypass operation on a woman at the Methodist Hospital here recently. As DeBakey deftly manipulated scalpels, scissors and forceps for more than three hours, his hands never quivered. What made it an extraordinary operation is that DeBakey, the pioneering heart surgeon, turns 90 on Monday. With bushy eyebrows, long dark hair that is combed back on a balding scalp and a tinge of gray on his sideburns, DeBakey looks 20 years younger. Though he takes fewer surgical cases these days, he maintains a whirlwind schedule of travel and consulting. He is celebrating his 50th year at Baylor College of Medicine, and only a disability will make him retire, DeBakey said. A recent checkup found DeBakey in the physical shape of a man much younger, with normal heart function, cholesterol and other blood tests, he said. He has been a hospital patient twice. Once was for surgery for a near-fatal bleeding ulcer in 1984. The other was for smoke inhalation suffered in rescuing his infant daughter, Olga, after a Christmas tree caught fire in his home in 1978. 'I just barely made it out,' he says