AP Photo	Surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed first heart transplant in US, dies at 90 November 19, 2008 - 6:08 PM EST Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90.Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.In 1967, Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, three days after the world's first was performed in South Africa.But...

AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 2:58 PM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 7:26 AM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 4:56 AM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 1:14 AM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 10:03 PM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 9:35 PM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells November 19, 2008 - 8:06 PM EST Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.If successful, the procedure could become...  AP Photo HEALTHBEAT: Doctors hope newer versions of artificial ankles will better mimic nature's joint November 17, 2008 - 4:26 PM EST What was left of Dan Sivia's ankle simply didn't work. He limped through his 30s by sheer force of will, one foot almost completely immobile from repeated broken bones and surgeries.Then a doctor offered his last hope: An ankle replacement.A what? Sivia knew about hip, knee, even shoulder replacements. But ankles?His confusion is understandable: The first ankle replacements of the 1970s were abandoned when they couldn't withstand...  AP Photo Huntington, W.Va., home to highest percentage of obese; also tops in diabetes, loss of teeth November 17, 2008 - 11:46 PM EST As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue."It doesn't come up," said David Felinton, 5-foot-9 and 233 pounds, as he walked toward City Hall one recent morning. "We've got a lot of economic challenges here in Huntington. That's usually the focus."Huntington's economy has withered, its poverty rate is worse...

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