George Thorn, pioneer in treatment of kidney diseases

By Edgar J. Driscoll Jr.

Globe Correspondent / July 9, 2004

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Dr. George W. Thorn, 98, a leading authority in the field of endocrinology who helped develop the first artificial kidney and was on a team that performed the world's first kidney transplant, died of respiratory failure June 26 in a rehabilitation facility in Beverly. (Full Article: 902 Words)