Heart transplants fare better from same sex

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 23:16

NEW ORLEANS -- Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex.

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