Word: linda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world waited and watched for encouraging signs, and for three weeks it looked as though the prognosis from the Loma Linda Medical Center would prove as steady and true as the pulse of the first-ever human recipient of an animal heart...
Almost twice as many students will participate in the interviews this year as did five years ago, said Linda Z. Chernick, director of recruiting at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning...
...Belle-Linda Halpern, who plays Charlotte Corday, the fiery young woman who stabs Marat to death is at the same time a groggy somnambulist who can barely wield a knife: she shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic, Halpern's performance is haunting. Christopher Moore is the "lucky paranoiac" who gets to play Marat. Suffering from a skin disease, the feeble and pinched looking Marat crouches in a bathtub. His fervent speeches sound simultaneously noble and pathetic as he bleats them in a madman's wavering voice. Although...
Asked whether Baby Fae would have trouble adjusting and perhaps be teased for being different, Loma Linda's Hinshaw replied, "Society may have to adjust to her." The heart, he added dryly, "is only a muscular pump. It is not the seat of the soul...
...Loma Linda hospital has given Bailey permission to try five baboon-to-human transplants, but doctors say they have no immediate plans for other patients. Last week they were referring parents to Dr. Norwood at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Already some optimists are envisioning a day when the transplanting of simian hearts will be as acceptable in human medicine as the use of heart valves from pigs and bovine insulin. "Maybe one of these days we can start farming baboons for this purpose," suggests Christiaan Barnard. Others believe that baboon hearts could be used as a temporary measure...