Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ends of the earth for him,'' says Charles Fiske of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, whose 11-month-old daughter Jamie in 1982 became the world's youngest recipient of a successful liver transplant performed by Najarian. Scott Jameson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who recently marked the 25th anniversary of his kidney transplant, is already considering what he'd like to tell the jury. "I've seen one side of the man," he says, "and he's been nothing but good...
First in San Francisco and later as chief of surgery at the University of Minnesota, Najarian focused on kidney transplants, struggling to improve the dismal success rate. Early on, only a third of patients survived more than three years. They were dying, Najarian knew, mainly because of tissue rejection. Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...
John Simpson went in for surgery to remove a kidney stone, only to have doctors find that it had disappeared: he credits a prayer wheel of more than 3,000 people that his wife, a Charismatic, organized. Leslie Smith recalls hurtling down a steep hill on her bike when she was seven years old. She began to slip off the seat--and felt hands lift her back up onto the bike. Dorothy Pederson, the most skeptical in the room, believes a miracle saved her husband's life after a brutal mugging in a hotel room seven years ago. John Lashley...
...started the venture back in 1854 by shipping bird dung from Peru to the U.S. for use as fertilizer. Perhaps more predictably, last week's admission came only after weeks of obfuscation on the part of the troubled company. The $5 billion conglomerate, which produces everything from plastics to kidney-dialysis equipment, initially blamed Bolduc's abrupt departure on "differences of style and philosophy...
Over the past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...