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...abandoned the operation. The reason: a fatality rate of up to 80% within a year after the surgery. Patients were often given huge doses of powerful immunosuppressive drugs to keep them from rejecting the "foreign" heart tissue, but the drugs made the patients vulnerable to other diseases. Says Cardiologist Philip Oyer of Stanford University: "The vast majority of heart-transplant patients who died did so from infection...
...many groups which sponsor the teach-ins is Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) which was founded by Harvard Cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown in 1960. Boasting 14,000 members nationwide. PSR is the largest professional anti-nuclear organization. The group is now headed by former Harvard pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, while Lown and other colleagues at Harvard the Soviet Union...
Meanwhile the Kremlin's top physician shed some light on Brezhnev's condition. In an exclusive interview with TIME'S Moscow bureau chief, Erik Amfitheatrof, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, 53, scoffed at news stories in the West that Brezhnev had been felled by a stroke. Said the doctor: "He has been buried so many times by the foreign press that I have lost count." Chazov, who heads the medical team that treats all the Kremlin leaders, pointed out that he is bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand...
...visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled a trip to England, where he was to attend a meeting of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear...
...particularly scientific approach to NDEs. Moody's style was anecdotal. Kübler-Ross did not actually write about NDEs, but lectured on the subject. Now comes a new book, Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation (Harper & Row; $13.50). The author is Dr. Michael Sabom, 37, a cardiologist at Atlanta VA Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Emory University. Like most doctors, he was initially skeptical about " 'far-out' descriptions of afterlife spirits and such." When asked to help lead a church-group discussion of Moody's book, he decided to do a little...