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...public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...
...anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in November, but he never appeared. According to the official medical bulletin last week, Ustinov had contracted pneumonia in October. Emergency surgery had to be performed to correct an aneurysm in the aortic valve. His liver and kidneys later malfunctioned, and he suffered a cardiac arrest last Thursday evening...
...institute: "Business in the health industry has been criticized for not supporting research. Now they're being criticized for doing it." DeVries has called for a national panel to review his research and study the attendant ethical and economic questions. The debate is sure to intensify. Last week Cardiac Surgeon Lyle Joyce, who worked with DeVries at the University of Utah and now heads a heart team at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, announced that he will apply to the Food and Drug Administration in March for approval to begin performing artificial heart implants. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Barbara...
...this year, Cozza's cardiac crew has found the going easier on the fast track...
...does this mean in terms of the 'informed consent' of the parents?" asked Michael Giannelli, science adviser for the Fund for Animals. According to Minnesota Surgeon Najarian, Baby Fae's doctors should have recommended a form of corrective surgery for hypoplastic heart developed by Dr. William Norwood, chief of cardiac surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Norwood's procedure, which is practiced at only a few U.S. hospitals, involves a rerouting of blood through the heart so that the right ventricle takes over the pumping function normally performed by the left ventricle. Norwood says that of 100 infants...