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...HEART is the source of the passions, of the emotions, what was the mechanical device implanted in Barney Clark's ribcage? It pumped blood for four months, keeping him alive. It also raised more pressing questions than this odd psychological one, especially now that medical history's second artificial heart transplant has been performed on 52-year-old William Schroeder...
...what some doctors might call the "good old days," almost all medical breakthroughs emanated from the major university teaching hospitals, especially Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. But as suddenly as heart transplant recipients Barney Clark, William Schroeder and Baby Fae made nationwide headlines, the traditional medical colleges were shoved out of the limelight. And they are fighting back. Calling doctors at the Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest...
Organizers in Boston and nationwide seek to raise awareness in the Boston area about apartheid, the Rev. Jack Mendelsohn, a protest leader, said Sunday at an Old South Church rally attended by 200 people. Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and U.S. Congressmen John Conyers and Barney Frank also addressed the meeting...
...week that he will worry for as long as Schroeder lives about the risk of infection, which is a greater problem for diabetics, or about a breakdown in the equipment. "We live on the edge of possible disaster at any time," he said. By applying the lessons learned from Barney Clark, DeVries hopes that certain earlier calamities can be avoided. For example, because Clark's brain seizures were attributed to the sudden increase in blood circulation following surgery, doctors are taking a more gradual approach to increasing Schroeder's heart rate. In addition, since one of the valves...
...field of medicine. Its Heart Institute had been open less than a year when the company decided in June to work on the mechanical heart. Institute Director Allan Lansing, an open-heart surgeon, had told Jones that Dr. William DeVries, who performed the first permanent artificial-heart implant, on Barney Clark at the University of Utah in 1982, might be willing to come to Louisville to pursue his research...