Doctors test latest attempt at artificial liver

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 02/02/2009 - 15:04

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's help for failing kidneys and failing hearts. But there's no fix for a dying liver. Doctors are trying to change that at a few hospitals around the country, testing a machine packed with human liver cells as a last-ditch chance to survive sudden liver failure....

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