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...least four surgeons were poised to try. On Dec. 3 Dr. Christiaan Barnard of South Africa got there first, sewing the heart of a young woman killed in a car accident into the chest of a middle-aged man. After nearly four hours of surgery, a single jolt of electricity started it beating. "Christ," Barnard said. "It's going to work." And for a while, it did. The patient survived the operation, but the immunosuppressant drugs used to keep his body from rejecting the new organ weakened him. Eighteen days after the operation, he succumbed to pneumonia. (See Dr. Christiaan...
...These are quite important collector paintings," says De Lakenhal's chief curator Christiaan Vogelaar of the seven disputed works at his museum. Although his museum has returned art stolen or purchased by the Nazis before, Vogelaar says the Katz claim came as a surprise. "People thought it was over because of the settlement after the war," says Vogelaar, referring to the 28 paintings returned to the Katz family in the 1940s. They include Rembrandt's Portrait of a Man, which is thought to have been bartered by Nathan in exchange for visas for his extended family and his mother...
...laying a bit, they're still producing offspring nearly a week behind prime caterpillar season. Inadequate nourishment means dying birds and falling populations. "We think this is the first time anyone has really shown that an insufficient response to climate change can cause population declines," says study co-author Christiaan Both of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology...
...surgeon who performed the world's first human-heart transplant, South Africa's Christiaan Barnard helped his patients feel years younger. Now the doctor is taking a cosmetic approach to the same idea. He wants to help people take the years off their faces. Next month Barnard, 63, will visit Wall Street to tell investors about his new line of skin-care products, called Glycel, which promises to help erase wrinkles through a scientific process. Barnard and a team of biologists developed the formula at an institute in Basel, Switzerland. Barnard's business partner is a former banker...
DIED. HAMILTON NAKI, 78, South African surgical pioneer with no formal training who was a central member of the team, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, that performed the first human heart transplant--yet went unrecognized for some three decades because of apartheid restrictions on blacks holding jobs deemed appropriate only for whites; of a heart attack; in Langa, South Africa. A gardener at the University of Cape Town, Naki got his start as a lab assistant when a doctor needed a hand while operating on a giraffe. Naki's skills ultimately led Barnard to request his help in the landmark...