Word: kidneys
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Harvard and Boston University Medical School surgeons will help implement a new law this week that represents a major new breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant cases...
...enables a person, without the consent of next of kin, to bequeath parts or the whole of his body for research and transplant use. It represents three years of legislative work by the surgeons. It represents, too, a major breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant patients...
Over the years, hockey players have added shoulder pads, kidney pads, shin guards, ankle guards, instep guards-until they now wear something like 25 lbs. of protection. But few wear anything to shield the face and head. Masterton's death has sparked demands that pros wear helmets-as do players in most amateur leagues. "I'm going to take a careful look at the possibility of wearing one," says Chicago Black Hawks Star Bobby Hull, and his teammate, Stan Mikita, insists that he will wear one "from now on-so I can spend next summer cutting grass instead...
Died. Waddill Catchings, 88, Wall Street financier and spectacular loser in the 1929 crash; of a kidney infection; in Pompano Beach, Fla. During the market madness of the 1920s, Catchings rose from a clerk to president of investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co., sat on the boards of 29 companies, and in 1928 launched Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.-a mutual fund which cost its holders close to $300 million when the price plummeted from $232 to $1.75 per share. Catchings resigned, later headed Muzak Corp. and retired last year as president of Concord Fund...
...shortage of blood and oxygen. After Washkansky received Denise Darvall's heart, these organs improved enormously. One thing that his 30-man team learned from Washkansky's case, said Barnard, is that the recipient's body is less prone to reject a heart transplant than a kidney, so future patients will not be so heavily dosed with drugs to suppress the immune reaction. That means less danger of infection and more hope of lasting success...