Transplant breakthrough announced by doctors

Those who have had organ transplants know that the regimen of anti-rejection drugs being part of the procedure's lifelong therapy. But, according to research out of Massachusetts, the days of needing to take anti-rejection drugs daily for a patient's entire life could seen be a distant memory.

The new process involved the weakening of the patient's immune system and then giving the organ recipient bone marrow from the organ donor.

In a sense, it's tricking the body into accepting the new organ using non-transplant material. To those organ recipients hopeful for getting off anti-rejection drugs forever, this is going to be seen as very good news.