Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Doctors everywhere know that malaria is easily transmitted by transfusion, so well-run blood banks, like New York Hospital's, take every precaution in accepting donors. Trouble is, the hospitals often have to buy blood from commercial banks. Since the malaria parasites hide in blood cells at different times in their complex life cycle, and are then very difficult to detect, blood banks usually take their donors' word that they have never had malaria. In some cases, though, a donor's word is far from reliable...
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...
...almost an archic individualism. Houston is probably the nation's most lightly governed big city. Property taxes are enviably mild, and the city relies heavily on private initiative and philanthropy to provide public facilities. Houston's only sizable public park is a gift from a rich donor. Much of the money for the city's lavish new medical center came from private contributions. Rice University, one of the Southwest's best educational institutions, is a privately supported, tuition-free school with a $70 million endowment...