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...reporting conclusions that should scare off new users and old. Until recently, when speaking of cocaine dependence, no one dared call it addiction: cocaine's withdrawal symptoms are not physically wrenching, as with heroin and alcohol. Nonetheless, says Dr. David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, "addiction is compulsion, loss of control and continued use in spite of the consequences. Cocaine is very addicting." What is more, and a fact many social snorters refuse to believe, coke can kill its users, and not just those who inject and free-base...
...start in the field by creating the first artificial kidney, a crude dialysis machine he pieced together from cellophane and other simple materials he found in Nazi-occupied Holland in the early 1940s. He designed his first artificial heart in 1957 when he was at the Cleveland Clinic. It sustained...
...than in the past nine years with animals," says Larry Hastings, a U.M.C. heart-pump technician. Jarvik has already designed a portable drive system the size of a camera bag that can run the Utah heart for twelve hours. It may be ready by 1985. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, as well as Jarvik, are now working on hearts with implantable motors. In ten years, the only external apparatus needed by an artificial-heart patient may be a 5-lb. battery pack...
Physicians who participated in clinical tests of more than 2,000 women conducted in the U.S. and six foreign countries during the past four years report that the sponge drew few complaints from users. Says Dr. Richard Soderstrom, a partner in the Mason Clinic in Seattle who is also a member of the FDA panel on toxic shock: "There are no systemic side effects, and no risk of infection...
...trip, beginning March 26 and lasting until April 3, will take the team to Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna and Copenhagen. During their travels the team will compete in a three-day tournament in Salzburg, as well as play in four other games and participate in a basketball clinic, organized by the American embassy in Vienna, for prospective young Austrian b-ballers...