Christiaan Neethling Barnard
1922-
South African Surgeon
Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in 1967 in South Africa. Barnard's surgery focused attention on the rapidl...
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The South African surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard (1922-2001) performed the world's first human heart transplant operation in 1967 and the first double-heart transplant in 1974.Christiaan N. Barnard was...
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard became internationally famous on December 3, 1967, when he performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. Many other surgeons had been struggling to prepare for this same ...
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard became internationally famous on December 3, 1967, when he performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. Many other surgeons had been struggling to prepare for this same ...
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American surgeon (b. Feb. 9, 1923,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
—d. Feb. 10, 2006,
Palo Alto, Calif.
), was a pioneer in cardiac transplantation who, on Jan. 6, 1968, at the Stanford University Medical...
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Nov 26 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on Dec. 3 since 1900: 1901 - The American inventor King Camp Gillette applied for
the patent for the first safety razor, ...
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Doctors marvel that Tony Huesman is still among the living. The suburban Washington Township man has defied the odds, living longer with a single transplanted heart than anyone else.
Huesm...
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Today is Monday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2007. There are 28 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 3, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard p...
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Its spacious lobby was the meeting place of politicians and oil-rich millionaires.Its guest rooms and restaurants bustled with the frenetic pace of freewheeling ranchers and drillers.Its banquet ro...
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