Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food, walking with help and doing leg and arm exercises. Drummond's steady progress seemed to augur well for the next phase of his treatment: a second operation, to remove the mechanical device, which had been implanted only as a stopgap measure, and to replace it with a human donor heart...
...speak clearly, the stroke left him "depressed and frustrated" and forced his doctors to speed up the transplant timetable. Rather than wait for Drummond to build up his strength for the second operation, as had originally been planned, they decided to perform the transplant as soon as a suitable donor organ became available. That happened at week's end, when doctors obtained and transplanted a heart from a 19-year-old Texas motorcycle accident victim...
...crisis cast doubt on a new phase in the artificial heart program, one with a more limited and, to many, a more realistic goal: to use the mechanical device not as a permanent implant but only as a bridge, keeping a seriously ill heart patient alive until a human donor heart can be found. The Food and Drug Administration had authorized Copeland to use the Jarvik-7 for that purpose only a few weeks before, and has since granted permission to a handful of other surgeons. "We're not really doing this in an attempt to further develop the artificial...
Karl Mengele & Sons now has a payroll of 1,200; 1984 revenues amounted to $82 million. The firm is run by Dieter Mengele and his cousin Karl-Heinz and is considered a fair employer and a generous civic donor. According to local police, the Mengeles have never reported a threat against their lives or their properties. Advertising signs saying MENGELE-GUNZBURG dot the sides of roads in the vicinity of the town; the firm's slogan, MENGELE -- THE BETTER IDEA, is splashed across the side of a plant building, clearly visible to motorists passing on a nearby expressway...
...solicitation within its borders of money for arms to be sent overseas, fund raising by Singlaub and others in the U.S. focuses on nonlethal aid, essentially boots, uniforms, food and medical supplies. Contributions in cash and kind range up to $500,000 a month, according to Singlaub. If a donor insists on giving money for weapons purchases, Singlaub tells them to send the funds to a certain overseas bank account, believed to be in Panama. Letters of credit are then issued against it, enabling recipients to buy arms abroad...