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...Minnesota Democrat Walter F. Mondale, to set up a presidential commission to study and evaluate scientific research in medicine. In some surgeons' minds, Mondale's proposal has blurred into the fearsome specter of having a commission decide on each individual transplant and establish the death of the donor before the transplant team can be called...
Self-Appointed Critics. Any further restrictions on surgeons seemed unnecessary and unwise to Barnard. The death of a heart donor is already certified by the most experienced neurosurgeons and neurologists, he said. As for the radical nature of the operation, Barnard felt that the decision to remove a dying man's heart "may not be as difficult as the decision to remove a young woman's breast because of a lump...
...donor, Boston real estate dealer Maurice Gordon, withdrew the gift several hours before a building was to be dedicated in his name...
...kidney that Joseph J. Palazola received in August 1964, came from a donor who had died of cancer that had spread from the lungs to the brain. At the time of the transplant, there was no evidence to suggest the cancer had traveled to other parts of the victim's body. Nonetheless, Palazola developed a malignant tumor near the transplanted kidney within 18 months. When radiation treatments failed to reduce the tumor, Palazola was taken off immunosuppressives. When this caused rapid rejection of the transplant, the kidney and most of the tumor were excised...
...Wilson and his colleagues performed a second transplant on Palazola in November 1966. This time the donor was his mother. Last week the doctors reported that "he had returned to full daily activity and has remained free of cancer...