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International Affairs. The document endorses free trade and urges increased foreign aid. It notes that the U.S. is the largest single donor of economic assistance, but points out that "our nation lags behind most other industrial nations in the relative amount of aid we provide to the Third World." The letter specifically deplores a recent decline in U.S. support for the World Bank's interest-free loan program...
...clear if Fae's kidney problem was due to her drug regimen, the surgery or rejection, which can trigger the failure of a number of organs. Most likely, it was a combination of factors. Though doctors had discussed the possibility of a second transplant?either from a human donor or another baboon?the child's weakened condition made this impossible. At 10:30 p.m. the hospital released a tersely worded death announcement: despite "intensive efforts" to restore her heart, "Baby Fae died at 9 p.m. Her parents were with her as much as possible during this period and are receiving...
...addition, he says that if the medical profession devoted more of its time to reforming the system for donor organs from humans (increasing the number who pledge their organs upon death) then the need to kill animals would be minimized...
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...
...available the day of Fae's operation. Transplant coordinators from the Regional Organ Procurement Agency at UCLA called Loma Linda hospital to offer the infant's kidneys (the heart was not discussed because Loma Linda does not have a human-heart-transplant program). When word of the potential human donor became public last week, Loma Linda officials explained that the call from the procurement agency had come after the baboon heart was implanted, that the heart of a two-month-old might have been too big for Fae, and that it would have taken too long to complete compatibility testing...