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...Caribbean and Central America; since 1980, in combination with Mexico, Venezuela has offered low-interest loans to needy neighbors to cover as much as 30% of the cost of oil imports. Total Venezuelan foreign aid since 1975 has amounted to some $4 billion, making Caracas the single largest donor in Latin America. (U.S. assistance to the region over the same period totals $2.9 billion...
Sourcees said the facility will not be named for the donor until his son, a current member of the Harvard tennis team, graduates...
...done at Stanford University. Led by Surgeon Norman Shumway, the Stanford team has performed 209 transplants since 1968 and reports that half of recipients can now be expected to live at least five years. These improved results are largely due to the ability to predict more accurately when the donor heart will be rejected. This allows doctors to use anti-rejection drugs with precision, minimizing undesired side effects...
...above the patient's head and transfused by gravity. Autotransfusion is especially suitable where blood loss is great, as in trauma patients or those undergoing cardiac or orthopedic surgery. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, where autotransfusion is used in all heart operations, the need for donor blood in such surgery dropped 60% last year. Using the patient's own blood eliminates the possibility that his blood type will be mismatched and reduces his chances of contracting blood-borne diseases. Says Jerome Hauer, a blood specialist at Beth Israel: "The patient gets the best blood...
Though these techniques are once again popular, their full impact on blood conservation is yet to be assessed. But they are already of lifesaving importance to Jehovah's Witnesses, whose faith forbids transfusions of donor blood...