http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23liver.html?ref=science

This article is about the ability of the liver to regenerate and how doctors have been using this to their advantage. There is now a very successful new way for a "temporary" transplant for livers. For very young children who need a liver transplant there is now a temporary transplant that can allow for the child to grow out of the transplant and become a perfectly normal and healthy person. The idea is that a liver is transplanted into the child, over a few years the patient's own liver regenerates, while they are taking antirejection drugs for the transplant, then when their own liver is large and strong enough to function on its own the doctors cut out the antirejection medicine and the transplant is then destroyed by the body's immune system. This then allows the child to live a perfectly healthy life, without the medication, which lowers the immune system's ability to fight off disease. I think this is such a great idea and can make a child's life that much better and healthier. It also makes it easier on the parents who then don't have to pay for the medications and won't have to worry about their kid getting sick as much.