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...come under fire from opponents of abortion who question the morality of using tissue from aborted fetuses. But Ammann sees no ethical problems in his operation. "We don't go around soliciting abortions," he says. "These are abortions that are already being done for other reasons." Dr. Samuel Kountz, a kidney specialist at the U.C. Medical Center, would like to try an even bolder operation-the transplant of a fetal kidney...
Even more than priests, nuns leaving church service these days rarely do so with a sense of failure. Says Leonora Kountz, a former Sister of Loretto who is now teaching in Chicago: "My order is one of the most progressive in the U.S. I certainly had no quarrel with them. Quitting was a sort of shifting the weight of my life. One's life has a certain weight, or direction, at one time, but it dawned on me that the weight had shifted toward another direction...
Double Duty Drug. Most geriatricians use sex hormones more sparingly than Dr. Kountz, and some are dead set against them. They doubt that it does any good to get an old woman menstruating again, point to the danger of excessive vaginal bleeding, and the chance that erotic interests may be overstimulated in either sex. Dr. Kountz recognizes these risks-he has had such cases himself, especially in the early days of the treatment-but claims that it is all a matter of control; if the doses are right, so, usually, are the results...
...fall for that old vegetarian routine," warns Dr. Cowdry. "It'll kill you. And a low-salt diet is just as bad unless it's prescribed for a specific reason, such as a certain kind of heart disease." A good average diet for later life, according to Kountz...
...tobacco there is a difference of opinion: Cowdry okays a little; Kountz rules it out entirely...