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WOMAN SUCCESSFULLY GETS SISTER'S OVARY

St. Lukes Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo is where Dr. Sherman Silber, a fertility specialist, performed the first live transplant in the United States of a woman's ovary from one to another on April 21, 2004. Silber, director of the Infertility Center at St. Luke's removed an ovary from an Alabama woman and transplanted it in the woman's identical twin. The sisters are Melanie Morgan and Stephanie Yerber both 24. The operation is first in the United States. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)


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LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A baby girl was born in London to a 38-year-old woman who received an ovary from her identical twin sister, a doctor said Wednesday.
LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Doctors in Britain and the United States say the world's first successful ovarian transplant gives new hope to infertile women.
ST. LOUIS, Ala., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- An Alabama woman has become the first ever to become pregnant with an ovary transplanted from her twin sister, the Mirror reported Wednesday.
ST. LOUIS, April 21 (UPI) -- A St. Louis area doctor Wednesday transplanted an ovary from one woman into her sister in the first such procedure performed in the United States.
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