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...Baker arrives, CPR is still going on; the code team has shoved a tube down Marilyn's throat to pump air into her lungs. Baker prays with Del Castilho as the doctors push epinephrine and atropine through an IV. Briefly, there seems hope of stabilization, and Yopp is wheeled to the medical ICU. But two hours later, after multiple IV infusions, resident Timm Dickfeld takes one last turn at CPR, punishing Yopp's chest almost savagely, then stops. "Call the code," says someone. "Call it." Dickfeld finally accedes. "Over," he says. He makes a chopping gesture. Yopp is dead...
...Strauss has seen much worse than this. All the same, it's a needle again, another IV, so she braces herself a little. The attending nurse inserts it into her arm, and tens of millions of specially designed cells begin finding their way, she hopes, to the very core of the thing she has struggled with for years. Strauss, 76, is a retired preschool teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C., just down the road from Duke. For five years she has battled breast and liver cancer. Chemotherapy gave her two years in remission. The new breast-cancer treatment tamoxifen provided...
...PENITENT] HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR HENRY IV...
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EAST EUROPEAN AIDS The number of East Europeans with AIDS has skyrocketed from 30,000 in 1994 to nearly 200,000 today. One reason: rampant IV-drug...