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...seem plausible, Cohen comes off as a virginal 17-year-old who cannot hold her end of the powerful dialogue. She is unconvincing when delivering brutal lines like "You middle-class Black bastard. Forget your social-working mother for a few seconds and let's knock stomachs. Clay, you liver-lipped white...
...MORE THAN TWO MONTHS, THE WORLD'S FIRST baboon-to-human liver transplant patient seemed to be improving. Doctors successfully treated a mild case of tissue rejection a few weeks after the ground-breaking 11-hour operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The problem did not recur, and by the end of July the new liver had tripled in size, matching a healthy human organ. But late last month a fever set in, followed by an infection -- possibly caused by an injection of X ray-sensitive dye. The liver began to fail, and then, within a week, though...
...known, but doctors said it was probably not due to rejection -- which means the Pittsburgh team may try a similar transplant as early as the end of the year. The next time, the patient may be in better overall health: the hepatitis B that destroyed this man's own liver was just one of his medical problems...
...medical procedures based on their value to the patient and society. The intention was to change the Medicaid rules so that more poor people could be covered, but not for the less worthwhile procedures. Some of the calculations were cold-blooded: no transplants for alcoholics with cirrhosis of the liver; reduced treatment for patients deemed near the end of their life...
...still anonymous 35-year-old man who received a baboon's liver in June is not doing well. The problem is infection, not rejection. Dye injected into his bile ducts to make them show up on X rays apparently caused the infection, and the patient's immune system, weakened by antirejection drugs, could not easily fight it. High doses of antibiotics reduced the resulting fever. But when tests showed the liver was excreting too little bile, the man's condition was downgraded to critical. A similar transplant on another patient was postponed until doctors resolve the situation...