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...dying heart was an I ugly yellowish color when Dr. William DeVries finally cut it loose, tore it out of the Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive?and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats...
...Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) will be deciding sometime this month. Do you okay Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which has already cost the University $302 million--six times more than originally projected? Or do you decide that the risk of four people suffering lung cancer from nitrogen dioxide emissions is too great and therefore prevent the site from generating electricity? To put it more bluntly: are those hypothetical lives really worth $75 million apiece...
...Brigham and Women's Hospital. It has only one more hurdle to cross before starting up the diesels. On August 24, a hearing officer appointed to make a recommendation to the DEQE ruled that although nitrogen dioxide emission from MATEP could potentially cause as many as four lung cancer deaths over the plant's 40-year operating life, that's not an "unreasonable" risk. In fact, according to hearing officer Ellyn R. Weiss, a Washington, D.C., environmental lawyer who has handled the MATEP case since 1977, living under the plant's stack is no more dangerous than smoking 1.4 cigarettes...
...million people live in the area affected by MATEP, 771 of them every year die of lung cancer...
Prostate cancer kills 25,000 American men a year, more than all other forms of the affliction besides lung cancer. The average age at diagnosis...