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...same immune mechanism that enables a healthy body to beat down a virus infection by developing antibody against the foreign protein. Against a second invasion, the body reacts faster. It is the same with grafts: the first may be rejected slowly, but a second one from the same donor is turned down more quickly...
...moment a method is found to control the immune mechanism in man, there will be a flood of transplants of many organs. The kidney has been favored up to now, because one kidney is enough for anyone, and everyone with a healthy pair is a potential donor. Even so, the kidney may not prove to be the easiest or the most wanted transplant. The pancreas, source of insulin, would be a boon to a diabetic. Dr. Moore is already making experimental transplants of whole livers between dogs. In Denver, two months ago. Colorado General Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital surgeons...
...pioneered with transplanted kidneys since 1950, decided to try and give him one. First they needed a healthy volunteer to donate a kidney. They found one-a woman. Then they got down to one of the most hazardous tasks of modern surgery, that of transplanting a living organ from donor to host...
Last week medical detectives were carrying on an intensive campaign to find the donor who was carrying the uncommon jalciparum malaria parasites. Although the patient he infected has recovered after proper treatment, the blood donor himself may die if he is not treated in time, or infect other persons with additional transfusions. Of the 23 pints used at New York Hospital, 19 had come from regular hospital donors-medical students, nurses, technicians and outside contributors. All were tested and found free from malaria, as was one commercial donor. The three others could not be found at the addresses they...
...reason for the ruckus is the donor: Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 84, a crusty, rasp-voiced publisher from Santa Ana. Calif., who plans to use Rampart College to promote the same "libertarian" philosophy with which he force feeds the 252,712 buyers of his five-state chain of Freedom Newspapers.* Hoiles's foes say he is to the right of Herod; he is, they say, an anarchist who carries laissez-faire economics to its illogical extreme...