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...count the number of animal-to-human transplants on one hand and they have all been totally hopeless," says Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, another heart transplant pioneer. The implantation of a foreign organ from a different species into a human causes continuous, massive rejection even though the organs are functionally similar, he says. Doctors are barely able to repress rejection in human-to-human transplants, he added...
...Cohn did offer some positive encouragement also. He says the new wonder immune-suppressions drug, cyclosporin, which was pioneered for use with heart transplants at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) last year, had not yet been tested in cross-species transplantation and indicated that Bailey was going to attempt the operation. However, he says that the likelihood of success even with the new drug was minimal...
...Cohn agreed however that significant reform in the human donor process would help to solve the reliance on other methods of saving lives including the use of animals. "Thousands of people die everyday with perfectly good organs," he says...
...painfully impressive. Tenor Placido Domingo is one of the finest of operatic actors, but even his persuasive characterization of Calaf, the unknown prince who overcomes the ice princess's sexual misanthropy, could not disguise the fact that the part lies uncomfortably high for him. In the pit, Conductor Cohn Davis, leading the opera for the first time, delivered a limp, unidiomatic account of the score that reduced its most thrilling moments to polenta...
...very hard to see why they would choose to neglect it," added Cohn, who is one of two board members nominated by landlords' groups. The tenants also nominate two of the five members who are appointed by the city manager...