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Father Damien had no problems regarding the donor. "The donor," he wrote, "is in no way 'sacrificed' by the doctors. He has already been in a closed circuit [heart-lung machine] for days, and is therefore already dead (flat electroencephalogram, etc.). His survival is artificial. So, no problem...
Died. Sir Roy Dobson, 76, chairman (1963-67) of the giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
...P.H.S. did not limit its concern to lung cancer, but pointed to an "increasing convergence" of new evidence that smoking can contribute to the development of heart disease. It does this, according to latest research, by producing a gap between the heart's demand for oxygen and the blood's ability to supply...
...comparative study of 200 lung-cancer patients and 200 victims of other chest diseases, made by the late Dr.David M. Kissen of Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, revealed that the cancer patients were less able to release their emotions. What's more, researchers reported last week, emotional inhibition parallels high per-capita cancer incidence among many peoples...
...Edinburgh, 15-year-old Alex Smith, Europe's first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...