Doctors test latest attempt at artificial liver

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 17:49 in Health & Medicine

(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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