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...hospital, the Prime Minister's body was taken to the eighth-floor operating theater. There, despite the lack of any vital signs, a team of twelve doctors desperately tried to perform a miracle. After putting her on an artificial lung and a heart machine, they removed seven bullets; in the process, they gave her 88 bottles of type O Rh-negative blood. Cabinet ministers waited in the hospital conference room, some stunned and speechless, some weeping. "They could not believe she was dead," a young doctor said later. "They would not accept that she was gone." It was not until...
Following what is now standard practice in heart transplants, Bailey transferred his tiny patient to a heart-lung machine, using it to gradually lower her body temperature from 98.6° F to about 68° F. The lower temperature slowed the baby's metabolism, allowing her other organs to better tolerate a reduced blood flow. One hour and 45 minutes into the operation, Bailey descended three floors to the basement, where the hospital maintains a colony of 29 primates. There, he removed the walnut-size heart of a seven-month-old female baboon, the animal that had proved...
...humans (see diagram), two of the baby's vessels were first joined together before being connected to one of the two arterial openings in the baboon's aorta. When the delicate plumbing job was completed, doctors slowly raised the infant's temperature and weaned her from the heart-lung machine. At 11:35 a.m. on Oct. 26, four hours and five minutes after Baby Fae had first entered surgery, her new heart began to beat spontaneously. "There was absolute awe," recalls Nehlsen-Cannarella. "I don't think there was a dry eye in the room...
Nearly 250,000 workers are being exposed to toxic chemicals that could cause cancer, heart problems and lung disease, according to studies by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Early detection of the ailments could prevent serious disability or death. The Centers for Disease Control asked for $4 million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered...
...exactly the right direction," says Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Lewis C. Cantley, adding, "Critics say no treatment may ever come out of it, but a good analysis is polio. Much money was spent on the design of a better iron lung machine, but not on the idea of using a serum. With cancer, much less has been spent on clinical treatment, but we may get the breakthrough from a different line of a research...