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...According to the American Lung Association, Americans consume 420 billion cigarettes per year, or 21 billion packs. Which means that between the states, the feds and the trial lawyers, smokers are coughing up $30 billion a year to The Man. (Keep in mind these numbers are after John McCain?s $400 billion-plus-$1.50-a-pack-tax settlement bill failed in 1998, and pending the settlement of a Clinton-launched $20 billion heath-care-recoup suit that the Bush DOJ is cool on pursuing...
...remember my father is the breadth of his shoulders and the strength of his back. For 82 years from the age of three, my father devoted the whole of his existence to the Kabuki stage, living many lives through his many roles. Following each of three operations for lung cancer over the past seven-and-a-half years, he returned right away to the stage. As he lay in intensive care, I told him, "You've worked too hard." Tears appeared in his eyes. I can only wonder what those tears said. Drama is life. For the life...
...This was not a deliberation of a purely scientific nature. Frist, a former heart and lung transplant surgeon, carries weight with this White House - because he is a physician, because he has a personal friendship with the President, and also because of his official role as the Senate?s Liaison to the White House. With his decision, the Senator has sent a message to President Bush, who is currently embroiled in the most contentious issue of his short term: Should he or should he not give the go-ahead to federal funding for embryonic stem cell research? Frist's proposal...
...course, technology has advanced considerably since then. The sophisticated pump used in last week's operation is designed to be completely implanted. Developed by Abiomed in Danvers, Mass., with funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the softball-size device is charged across the skin, so there's no need for chest tubes. Its batteries are miniaturized, and its pumping chambers are lined with a specialized coating that should cut down on blood clots...
Does that mean we should forget about total artificial hearts like Abiomed's? Not at all. There will always be some folks whose hearts are so worn out they cannot be salvaged. A review panel convened by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute in 1999 estimated that between 5,000 and 10,000 patients a year might be helped by the development of total artificial hearts. But as with many medical advances, the early going will probably be grim. Doctors in Louisville will consider their experiment an astounding success if their patient manages to live an extra two months...