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...Stanford doctors, who do two dozen transplants a year, half the world total, credit several developments. New methods of handling organs have increased the availability of donor hearts; so has increasing acceptance of the concept of "brain death," which declares a person dead when the brain is not functioning even though the heart beats on. Also, recipients are chosen more carefully. The ideal candidate is under age 50, healthy aside from heart disease, optimistic, stable and has a supportive family...
...committee's programs receive about $10,000 annually, half from the president's discretionary "venture" fund and half from an anonymous donor. Since the "venture" fund is meant for only new projects, other sources of funding should be found, Homans said...
Snell's and Dausset's discoveries have led to better matching of donor organs with recipients. Further, since the HLA molecules give everyone except identical twins a unique biochemical profile, HLA "typing" has become a major tool in forensic medicine. It has helped identify rapists through semen stains, and in one paternity case it showed that a pair of fraternal twins were sired by different fathers. Researchers have found that certain HLA groupings are associated with particular diseases, including multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Through HLA typing, it may one day be possible to tell an individual what...
Named the Murphy Haggadah after its alumnus donor, the book--which is worth about $150,000--was identified as the Rothschilds' through the tiny number "92" penciled on the inside back cover. That number corresponded to an inventory number in a catalog of the baron's possessions...
...surgeon removes tissue from the center of the cornea, thereby flattening it. In farsighted patients, tissue is removed from the periphery to accentuate the curve. A similar operation, called keratophakia (cornea lens), is used to correct only farsightedness. After the front of the cornea is sliced off, a reshaped donor cornea (from an eye bank) is inserted in its place. The front of the original cornea is then sewn back on, resulting in a more sharply curved structure...