Issue for Week of August 20, 2000 / Vol. 1 No. 8

Poll: Americans Oppose Cloning Organs for Transplant UK Panel OKs Cloning Human Cells for Transplant Research Pittsburgh Group Bids to Reassure Transplant Centers on OPTN 1st U.S. Hand Transplant Patient Has 40% Function Year Later New Cloned Pig and New Xeno Virus Concern Reported Dolly's Creators Reported Halting Efforts to Create Pigs for Xeno University of Wisconsin Hospital Switches Tissue Banks Heart Device Lets Pittsburgh Take Patient Off Transplant List Mississippi Heart Transplant Surgeon Dies in Diving Accident Permanent Artificial Heart Implanted in Man, 74, in Spokane