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Denise Darvall, 25, had been killed in a car accident. But her heart would get a chance to live on in a history-making procedure. As Dr. CHRISTIAAN BARNARD performed the world's first successful heart transplant on a human, the world palpitated...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Louis Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked. Now, almost four hours after the first incision, history's first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied. The heart leaped...
When I retired in 1983, it was because I wasn't hungry for the work anymore. It was only after my retirement that I began to make real money. I set up the Chris Barnard Foundation, which brings patients, especially kids, from all over the world to South Africa for heart surgery. And I've just written another book, 50 Ways to a Healthy Heart. Laughter is one of those ways. Anything that makes life happier is good for you. That's why sex is good for the heart...
...Perry G. Mehrling ’81, the chair of the economics department at Barnard College, Columbia University and an expert on the spending practices of private foundations, says university endowments should pay out income at virtually the same rate they make money...
Stewart, 59, who graduated from Barnard College in New York before embarking on her first career as a Wall Street stockbroker, said that if she had to do it again she would study in Cambridge, but not at Harvard...