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...have learned that he had made medical history: in the space of four days his life had been sustained by four different hearts (including his own). Throughout the marathon medical battle the big concern was time. When Creighton's heart failed on Wednesday, he was put on a heart-lung machine, a device used to pump and oxygenate blood during heart surgery. The machine could be used safely for only three or four hours before causing serious damage to blood cells and ultimately to vital organs...
...Creighton's time on the heart-lung machine ticked on with no donor heart in sight, Copeland got permission from the patient's family to try an artificial heart. He called Heart Surgeon Cecil Vaughn of St. Luke's Hospital in Phoenix, who for two years has been experimenting with the "Phoenix heart," the invention of Kevin Cheng, a dental surgeon. Vaughn was stunned; the heart was years away from FDA approval and had been tested only twice in animals. "It was like a bomb falling from the sky," he recalls. Still he agreed to helicopter to Tucson immediately with...
...DEQE study projected that MATEP's diesels could cause four lung cancer deaths over its 40-year operating life. Daniel G. Partan, a Boston University law professor who has helped Brookline's legal efforts, said that under Massachusetts statutes, DEQE cannot OK a power plant's operation if it might endanger human life...
...startup of the diesels means that the 6.4 megawatt MATEP can finally start achieving the energy efficiency for which it was designed. Approval of the diesels came earlier this month when a state agency ruled that while poisonous exhaust from MATEP's stack could give four people lung cancer over the 40-year operating life of the plant, that risk is not unreasonable...
Schechter thinks the CDC will find a rash of cases. Since the Los Angeles Times carried a story about Cislaw, Schechter's office has been flooded with hundreds of calls from clove smokers complaining of shortness of breath, nosebleeds, nausea, lung infections and asthma. "About 30% to 35% said they were coughing up blood," he says. "Emergency rooms haven't seen a symptom like that since TB was in style...