Word: handing
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...hooking hand to arm was the easy part. Getting the improbable graft to do the work of an ordinary hand was another matter. Now, it seems, that hurdle has been surmounted...
...costume as a first step to getting to know chickens better. Now I invite him to visit our chicken sanctuary on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in order to deepen his vicarious identification with the birds whose dead wings he still finds appetizing. I invite him to lay his hand on those very wings while they are still alive, feathered and flapping. And I will tell him precisely how Buffalo wings are made. I bet the next time he's confronted with a heap of dead wings dressed in sauce, he will take flight. KAREN DAVIS, PRESIDENT United Poultry Concerns...
...miraculous enough in early 1999 when doctors in Louisville, Ky., transplanted a left hand from a fresh cadaver to Matthew David Scott, then 37, who had lost his own hand in a fireworks accident 13 years earlier. The surgery--an exacting task that required joining dozens of nerves, blood vessels, muscles, bones and tendons--was a success, if only because the transplanted hand wasn't immediately rejected by its new host...
Last week the Louisville team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine just how well Scott, a paramedic, is doing. Within three months of the surgery, he went public with his new hand, gripping a baseball with the aid of a brace and flinging a first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies game. Within eight months, he could distinguish between hot and cold, a sure sign that the nerves were regenerating. Today, thanks to hours of grueling physical therapy, he is capable of more challenging tasks like driving a car, tying shoelaces and, most important, lifting his kids. Though such...
Scott's is the first hand transplant of its type in the U.S. and one of only eight worldwide. (Reattaching a patient's own severed hand is far more common.) So far, his transplant team, led by Dr. Warren Breidenbach, at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Dr. Jon Jones, now at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., seems to have overcome the most formidable challenge of such a procedure--long-term limb rejection. While immune-suppressant drugs have improved the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants, the arm is composed of several different tissues...