Word: donor
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...government planning, marketing and even the costly business of diplomatic representation abroad is rare. Sometimes the regional competition reaches ludicrous extremes. In 1976, Jamaica used a developmental loan from Trinidad and Tobago to finance an elaborate London embassy and to create Air Jamaica as a rival to the donor country's BWIA International; both airlines are now heavy money losers. Major General Robert Neish, head of the 4,000-member Jamaica Defense Force, finds it easier to work out military exchange programs with Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, than with his independent neighbors...
...already given him the job in my mind," recalled Marbach. (Andrews will report for work for his new $10,500-a-year truck-loader's position as soon as his knee ligaments, torn during the rescue, are healed.) Three days after the incident, an anonymous donor sent Andrews a $3,000 bank check to wipe out his debts. Andrews has a special sympathy for the blind; his sister lost her eyesight in a New York City subway robbery over four years ago. "If it had been my sister there," said Andrews, "I wouldn't want anyone to just...
...blood transfusions. Eight hemophiliacs and two heart-transplant patients who received blood appear to have been infected in this manner. In addition, a San Francisco infant who received multiple transfusions at birth developed infections and other signs of AIDS. Some of the baby's blood came from a donor who was later diagnosed as an AIDS victim. As a result, blood-bank operators around the country are searching assiduously for a way to detect AIDS in blood...
...questions, but not the ones covered in your article "Which Life Should Be Saved?" [Nov. 22]. The issue is: Do people have the right to decide what to do with their own organs? The American Medical Association can lay down guidelines for transplants, but this does not negate the donor's privilege to choose who will receive his organs...
...there are simply not enough donor hearts around for the up to 75,000 U.S. patients who need them each year. For this reason, Barnard's fellow pioneers, Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley, say the Utah heart is an important breakthrough. Both believe, however, that it should be used only temporarily to sustain patients until donors can be found. Cooley has in fact twice used a more primitive apparatus than Jarvik's for this purpose. Says Cooley: "I've never thought of the artificial heart and transplant as being competitive. They complement each other...