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Nonetheless, Secretary Sullivan's rejection letter last week reflected almost verbatim the National Right to Life Committee's critique of Oregon's plan, including a complaint that the state's phone survey was biased against disabled people. The Administration also maintained that by funding liver transplants only for nonalcoholics, the plan discriminated against alcoholics, who may be considered disabled. It further argued that to deny heroic treatment for the smallest preemies and for end-stage AIDS patients was discriminatory...
...oysters often carry the hepatitis A virus, which causes a truly unpleasant (though not necessarily fatal) liver disease. Now comes a vaccination of sorts, and one that many people will find easier to swallow than the oysters. According to a report in the journal Epidemiology, chasing oysters with a glass of wine or a cocktail can reduce the risk by a whopping 90% no matter how many oysters are downed. It's the first time anyone has shown alcohol can prevent viral illness...
...antihistamine Seldane is a godsend to allergy sufferers because it doesn't cause drowsiness. But the FDA reports that in 64 cases out of 200 million users worldwide, it has led to irregular heartbeats, heart attacks and even death. The danger is to people with liver disease, people who take overdoses or those who take it with the antibiotic erythromycin or the antifungal drug Nizoral. Seldane will now get a stronger warning label...
Protesters outside the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center carried signs reading animals are not expendable. But for the 35-year-old man recovering inside, the choice had been between life and death. In an 11-hour operation, the unidentified patient received a new liver to replace his own, ravaged by hepatitis B. Since the virus would have also destroyed a replacement human liver, doctors transplanted the organ from a baboon...
...transplant; kidneys and hearts have been shifted from chimpanzees, baboons and monkeys into people for decades, though never successfully. What may make the difference this time is an experimental antirejection drug known as FK-506; doctors hope it will keep the recipient's immune system from attacking the new liver as a foreign object. Though the patient had symptoms of a mild rejection reaction by week's end, it wasn't considered serious. Otherwise, said a hospital spokeswoman, "he's doing really well. It's almost scary...