Word: lungfuls
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...Casablanca. One can lay the sweet thing down on a stainless-steel lab table and dissect it with instruments Freudian or anthropological. A doctoral thesis might be written on the astonishing consumption of alcohol and cigarettes in the movie. At that rate, everyone would have died of cirrhosis and lung cancer...
...method, devised by scientists at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is based on experiments on baboons. It has been used in only a handful of human patients suffering from severe thalassemia or sickle cell anemia. These blood disorders result from defects in the genes that control production of hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen in the blood. In essence, thalassemia victims cannot form healthy red blood cells on their own and require periodic transfusions; sickle cell patients are subjected...
...assembled was a 17-member team with Jarvik as an observer. Working quietly and steadily to the hushed strains of Ravel's Bolero, DeVries made a 9½-in. incision from the breastbone to the abdomen and carefully completed the delicate task of connecting Clark to a heart-lung bypass machine that would pump and oxygenate his blood until the plastic heart was in place...
...what Trumka called "giveaways" in other areas, such as allowing the coal companies to pay less for the health care of miners. Trumka pounded away at the health issue with personal feeling: his father and the father of his bride-to-be, Barbara Vidovich, 35, suffer from black-lung disease...
...kidney transplants. At Stanford University Medical Center, about one out of three candidates for a heart transplant dies before a suitable heart becomes available. At New York's Montefiore Medical Center, 25 out of 30 patients have died over the past two years while waiting for a new lung. Infant donors are rarest of all. "Pediatric organs are more priceless than gold," says Brian Broznick of the University of Pittsburgh Transplant Foundation...