NATION IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Man With Baboon’s Liver Is Doing Well

The recipient in the first baboon-to-human liver transplant was doing so well that doctors cut his doses of anti-rejection drugs to levels closer to those used in human-to-human transplants, hospital officials said. Nineteen days after the transplantation, the 35-year-old patient, who has requested anonymity, was still listed in serious condition, a spokeswoman for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Presbyterian University Hospital said. But she said the new liver was functioning well and the patient’s bilirubin level was normal for the first time since the patient contracted hepatitis B in the late 1980s.