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Researchers have also learned that human AIDS, unlike diseases such as rabies or smallpox, can't be reliably imitated in animals, so vaccines have to be tested in humans by trial and error. In that sense, the AIDSVAX test was a success even as it failed. "For so many years," says VaxGen's president, Dr. Don Francis, "the conventional view was that we couldn't do efficacy trials for AIDS vaccines. You couldn't get volunteers, and people would increase their risk behaviors if they thought they were protected. We've proved that you can do trials with the highest...
...blood-typing error that resulted in 17-year-old Jesica Santillan's being given the wrong heart and lungs was, by all accounts, an unusual mistake for the prestigious Duke University Hospital. Even rarer in some ways was the frank public acknowledgment of error by the hospital, followed by a sincere apology from her doctor. According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that sort of thing doesn't happen often enough, especially for patients who desperately want more information about what's happening to them--both good...
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...Jesica seems to have leapfrogged the entire list. Carolina Donor Services says the organs were not directed to Jesica by the donor family. The likely answer is that the urgency of Jesica's need pushed her to the front of the line, which is accepted practice. Duke's error may have cost others as well: those waiting for just one of those organs...
Junior captain opposite Russ Mosier and junior middle blocker Juan Carlos Cardet teamed up to block a Lardo kill attempt, and a Lardo kill error on the next point gave Harvard its first two-point lead of the game...