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...patient, a U.S. citizen living in Germany, was suffering from advanced leukemia and HIV two years ago when Huetter treated the cancer with a bone-marrow transplant at Berlin's Charité hospital. As a side experiment, he inserted the bone marrow of a donor naturally resistant to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. (Researchers have long known that about 1% of Europeans carry a genetic mutation that makes their cells resistant to HIV infection.) Bone marrow produces the cells that HIV attacks. So, the thinking went, inserting marrow that produces HIV-resistant cells might endow the patient with...
...more than usual concern. Father Damien Boulogne is a former professor of philosophy at Dominican seminaries. Two years ago, the priest had suffered a series of heart attacks that left him to tally disabled. Now 57, Father Damien got his new heart at the Hôpital Broussais-La Charité in Paris, where he is now recovering in sterile isolation. From there he wrote for La Vie Catholiqué an account of the soul-searching that preceded his operation...
...Sauerbruch went to Berlin's Charité Hospital as head of the surgical clinic and has been there ever since. He now insists that he thought all along that the Nazis were crazy. But he accepted three Nazi awards for his services-the title of Staatsrat (for doctoring President von Hindenburg), the German National Prize and a post as advisory surgeon to the Army during World War II. Meanwhile, in public speeches, Dr. Sauerbruch demanded "freedom" for German scientists. In the final battle of Berlin, he sent a courier to Hitler demanding in the name of the endangered Charit...
When the Russian Army took over Berlin, General Georgi Zhukov appointed old Sauerbruch as Berlin's public-health chief. On U.S. insistence, Sauerbruch was later fired from that job, but he remained in charge of the Charité. Last week Berliners were betting that the denazification court (the Spruchkammer) would clear the doctor. Said he, still spry and fiery at 72: "I am a physician and no Nazi...
...Canada, opinion is divided as to whether Dionne's scheme is the "oeuvre de charité" (charitable act) that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd call it. The General Council of the Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill...