British girl's heart heals itself after transplant

With all the current financial, political and environmental turmoils in the world today I thought I should share a story why some of us joined the medical field in the first place -- because this field can truly make a difference.

"British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart. After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart."

For the complete story go to http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/...art_transplant