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...viable artificial alternative is clear; if Carpentier's device proves reliable and durable, it promises to shorten transplant wait-lists and save the lives of at least some of the 17 million people who die of heart disease every year. The first transplant patients will likely be the critically ill, who currently receive existing artificial hearts as end-of-life treatments, but Carpentier expects his new heart to be tested increasingly in younger heart patients whose bodies may be in better shape to recover from an artificial-organ transplant - and resume a relatively normal lifestyle...
McCain, John • Cheney's unwelcome and ill-timed endorsement of •civility is belatedly shown...
...hindered by a small sample size, the need to rely on second-hand interpretations of patients' problems, and the fact that the medical community's knowledge of schizophrenia has changed over the past century - their observations are enough to give us pause. While the underlying causes of mental illness have remained the same, the delusions it produces are a distorted, funhouse mirror-type look into our own world. History is almost never viewed through the eyes of the insane, especially not the locked-up, straight-jacketed kind that Big Nurse just wants to subdue. But the mentally ill are products...
...great irony is that throughout his second campaign for the presidency, McCain rarely seemed to catch a break. Time and again, outside events hampered his electoral chances, first with an ill-timed debate over immigration in the primary and then with this fall's financial crisis, which ultimately sunk his campaign. "It is entirely doubtful that anyone will have to run in a worse political climate than the one John McCain had to run in this year," Steve Schmidt, McCain's political guru, said earlier...
...days leading up the Nov. 4 election, the measure, referred to by opponents as "assisted suicide," was passed with more than 50% of the vote in Washington state on Tuesday. The approval makes Washington the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The law permits individuals who have been given less than six months to live by medical professionals to request - and self-administer - a lethal dose of medicine prescribed by a physician...