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...abortions, however, can affect the vital interests of a third party: a desperately ill youngster who can be helped by a transplant from an aborted fetus. Such operations are still rare. But Dr. Arthur Ammann of the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center has performed two gland transplants that may encourage increasing use of fetal tissue...
...Vital Gland. Last summer, Maggie was referred to Ammann, a specialist in pediatric immunology. When she failed to respond to injections of a white blood cell extract as a means of arousing immunity, Ammann realized that the problem was in her thymus gland-a butterfly-shaped bit of tissue that lies just behind the breastbone. The gland has a key role in the development of the body's immune responses.Tn one previous case, Ammann knew-implantation of a thymus from a miscarried fetus stimulated this process in a child born without the gland...
...oldest, established, permanent, doting, elected patriarch on the continent. Indeed, so popular was Old Daddy with his subjects that the only thing that could oust him from office was death. The ouster came last week, when the 75-year-old President succumbed to complications following a prostate-gland operation in a London hospital...
...spent mooning over three dizzy young girls whom he loves equally in a rather abstracted way. Deeply skeptical of human solutions, he nevertheless deludes himself that he can heal the modern soul with an invention which he calls the lapsometer. Like a latter-day Descartes focusing on the pineal gland as seat of the human soul, More constructs a machine that isolates and measures areas of psychic imbalance in the brain...
...thousands in the U.S. alone. Doctors believe that more than 1,000 children a year could benefit from a ready supply of growth-producing hormones. Hormone shots, which can speed up growth by as much as five inches a year, now each require the output of a single pituitary gland. The demand far exceeds the supply of cadavers...