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...basic problem confronting the surgeon in kidney transplantation in man has been the irregular numbers of venous and arterial vessels seen in the kidneys of the donor and recipient. As an example, the donor kidney may have more than the normal number of venous or arterial vessels, and the surgeon must decide whether to join or ligate (tie off) the irregular vessels...
Dixon, the donor of the gift, won the national squash championship in 1925 when he was a Harvard senior, and in 1926. He was a master of position squash, and in 1946, when he was badly out of practice, he was still able to put up a tough fight against one of the leading professional players of the day: Jack Barnaby...
...biggest ever received by Columbia from a living man. On hand was William Black himself, a self-styled "poor kid from Brooklyn," who parlayed a Times Square nut stand into the $33.7 million-a-year Chock Full O'Nuts Corp. At such ceremonies, the honored donor's speech is expected to contain a little modest reminiscence and some high-minded platitudes. What Black delivered instead was a brief, jarring indictment of "unessential" philanthropies. In two minutes flat, he denounced: > Columbia's plan for a $6,000,000 business-school building "that we don't need." ^ >Philanthropist...
...estimated 10% of U.S. transfusion blood is drained from paid donors by commercial supply houses, which sell the blood for profit. They need a license from the National Institutes of Health for interstate shipments. They flourish in the Midwest and the South. One such is the Community Blood and Plasma Service Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., which sold blood to the indicted Westchester dealers, but, far from being implicated, helped Public Health Service officers open up the case. It pays donors an average of $9 but may go to $20 for rare types. In segregated Alabama, its blood is labeled...
Federal inspectors may drop in at any time on blood-donor services and banks under their control, and AABB has an inspection service to make sure that the blood they supply is not only fresh but, so far as possible, free of disease. Even so, donors out to make blood money will sometimes lie about whether they have had malaria, which is hard to check in the laboratory, or hepatitis, which is impossible to check. These diseases are a small but real peril in blood transfusion. Though no case of injury to a patient had been traced to blood supplied...