Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When doctors decided that Susan Garn Horne, 27, needed a new kidney, finding one proved no problem. "I am very happy and proud to be the donor," said Utah Senator Jake Garn, 53, her father. Last week, in six hours of surgery performed in adjacent operating rooms in Georgetown University Hospital, Garn's left kidney was transplanted to his daughter...
...schools have a single university hospital," notes former Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...
Along the way, Brickman makes good points about nuclear proliferation and Government security without interrupting the action. Nor does Brickman, a onetime collaborator of Woody Allen's, lose his sense of humor, which delivers in glancing blows rather than kidney punches. A story of this kind is inherently implausible, but Brickman has invested it with believability and an irresistible emotional pull...
...repercussions can be deadly at times, though for bulimics the prognosis is usually brighter. Anorexics at various stages can experience a cessation of menstruation, insomnia, hypothermia, fatigue and depression. Bulimics suffer dehydration, internal bleeding, enlargement of salivary glands and severe loss of potassium which can lead to heart or kidney failure, says Honnet...
Americans must continue such progress, though,Califano said, if they are to avoid confronting adebate "over who lives and who dies." If thedemand for medical attention greatly exceeds itssupply, the government will be forced to assumethe role of deciding "who gets the next heart,kidney, hip or knee operation and who is entitledto expensive anti-cancer therapy...