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...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...
...decide to donate his organs to a hospital or medical school, he and his physician will complete the five forms. They include his statement of donation; the physican's statement ("... the donor was of sound mind and not under the influence of narcotic drugs..."); a statement by next of kin; provisions for burial; and a reference to the hospital or medical school receiving the organs. The donor must be twenty...
Curran emphasized that the form-card-operation system does not interfere with funerals and autopsies. In the case of homicide victims, a coroner would be called before the surgery. Final decisions in these cases, he said, would be left to the Commonwealth or next of kin...
...sophisticated ELINT (for electronic intelligence) ships in the U.S. Navy. That ferret fleet is intended as a counterforce to Russia's 60-vessel ELINT armada, made up mostly of converted trawlers and hydrographic craft, all bristling with antennas and sensitive snooping gear. Just as the Pueblo and her kin prowl the international waters off China, North Korea and the Soviet Union, Russian trawlers are stationed off California, South Carolina, Florida's Cape Kennedy, Guam and Alaska. A Soviet spy ship dogs every move of U.S. aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station," the 45,000-sq.-mi. area...
...Colored" under South Africa's race laws. Dr. Barnard asked Blaiberg whether he would object to receiving a Colored man's heart. No, replied the desperate patient-who, like Washkansky, happened to be Jewish. Then the surgeons had to get consent from Haupt's next of kin. His wife Dorothy collapsed when she was told he could not survive. To protect themselves, the doctors asked Haupt's mother. Widowed three years ago (her husband died of a stroke), she agreed to donate her son's heart...