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...Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically slim. But last week a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center gave the little girl from Schertz, Texas, her chance to live. And what seemed truly miraculous about the operation was the source of Alyssa's new liver: her mother...
...Japan, but this was the first time it was tried in the U.S. Doctors have had a great deal of success in kidney, pancreas and bone-marrow transplants from living donors, and hope is rising that the liver will join that list. Says Dr. Christoph Broelsch, who led the Chicago transplant team: "This surgery potentially opens up a whole new pool of donor organs for infants. It's the first step in answering the problem of juvenile organ shortage...
...dangers inherent in such complex transplants pose ethical dilemmas for the medical community. University of Chicago ethicists and physicians spent a year discussing whether doctors have the right to ask healthy parents to donate portions of their vital organs, even if it means saving the life of their child. Critics argue that there is no way parents can refuse such a request when under the pressure of having a dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant...
Mosteller, who has published more than 250 articles and books, has received honorary degrees from Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He also helped prepare the landmark Kinsey report on human sexuality in the 1950s, and the Coleman report on educational opportunity in the 1960s...
Mosteller said he taught probability and statistics to students all across the country during the 1960s on NBC's "Continental Classroom" television program. In collaboration with David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago, he also used statistical techniques to determine that James Madison wrote several of the Federalist Papers, whose authorship had been disputed, he said...