Word: kidneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maximum of 50,000 annually. But the expense could be astronomical. Implanting the device will cost upwards of $30,000, and home equipment and maintenance will cost many thousands more. The Government now pays more than $1 billion a year to dialyze more than 50,000 patients with kidney disease. Should it also pick up the tab for artificial heart implants...
DIED. Yuri Trifonov, 55, Soviet writer who plumbed the moral dilemmas of Soviet life in such subtle, allusive works as The House on the Embankment (1976), The Long Goodbye (1971) and The Exchange (1969); of a heart attack following a kidney operation; in Moscow. Trifonov, whose father, a high Bolshevik official, was imprisoned and executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and whose mother was sent to a prison camp, once explained: "A lot of things can be said best through art, through metaphor...
DIED. Olin ("Tiger") league, 70, much-decorated World War II colonel who served as a U.S. Congressman from Texas for 33 years (1946-79), tenaciously leading House battles for improved veterans' benefits and for the U.S. space program; of kidney failure and a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...Laborit, combat is the healthiest option, but society forces us to repress those more aggressive instincts, thus inhibiting us. "When we can't take out our aggressions on others," Laborit says grimly, "we can still take them out on ourselves." Inhibition, then, results in high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers, kidney stones, heart disease, and suicide...
Meanwhile, the British public is frightened. London Photographer Sally Greenhill expressed a common reaction to the broadcast: "I immediately tore up my organ donor card." In the four weeks after the telecast, the number of kidney transplants fell by a quarter, but is now beginning to increase again. British doctors hope the public will finally be reassured in February, when they state their case in a special 90-minute program...