In a first, key pancreatic cells inserted in wounded airman's liver
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
In what medical officials say is a first, the bullet-scarred pancreas from a service member who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing cells were salvaged from the organ and flown back to be dropped into the man's liver.