Word: medicale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some 150 other young children in the U.S., 21-month-old Alyssa Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically...
The dangers inherent in such complex transplants pose ethical dilemmas for the medical community. University of Chicago ethicists and physicians spent a year discussing whether doctors have the right to ask healthy parents to donate portions of their vital organs, even if it means saving the life of their child...
The report also indicated some changes in the University's traditional distribution of fundraising income. The Law School, the Business School and the Medical School have generally topped the annual giving statistics, but yesterday's report showed a fifth faculty slowly moving up the annual giving ladder.
The Medical School, which is in the middle of a capital campaign, received about$33 million in gifts last year, the report said.
A capable NIH director will need to be able to respond quickly to severe biological and medical problems, such as the AIDS crisis, "without being delayed by too many organizational layers," Wilson said.