1954: First successful kidney transplant from one twin to another with no anti-rejection drugs necessary. Dr. Joseph Murray, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. (More kidney transplants between identical twins were performed immediately afterward, and some of those kidney recipients are still alive.)
1967: First successful liver transplant, Dr. Thomas Starzl, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
1967: World's first heart transplant, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, South Africa.
1968: First successful heart transplant in United States, Dr. Denton Cooley at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
1968: Uniform Anatomical Gift Act passed, creating the "Donor Card" and allowing families to consent to or refuse donation. It also prohibited doctors attending the donor from participating in organ removal or transplantation.
1978: Uniform Brain Death Act passed, expanding for the first time the traditional definition of death. "Brain death" IS death.
1983:......

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