News tagged with swap
Pilot transplant project aims to spur kidney swaps
(AP) -- Too often, would-be kidney donors are wasted because the friend or loved one they want to help isn't a match. Now a new national database promises to help find matches for those frustrated pairs so ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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CenturyTel, seeking scale, to buy Qwest for $10B+
(AP) -- CenturyTel Inc., the country's fifth-largest local-phone company, plans to buy the third-largest, Qwest Communications International Inc., in a stock deal worth more than $10 billion so the companies ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Patients meet donors from largest-ever kidney swap
(AP) -- Thirteen patients with healthy new kidneys from what's believed to be the world's largest kidney exchange met the donors who made it happen Tuesday - including three who are sure to face the question, ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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26 operations, 13 kidneys: hope to few with little
(AP) -- Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Cassini Thruster Swap Planned
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cassini spacecraft will swap to a backup set of propulsion thrusters in mid-March due to degradation in the performance of the current set of thrusters.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2009 |
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