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...open romance with a younger woman has already earned him a national tongue-lashing, but there seems to be no end to the abuse Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is willing to suffer in the name of love. While in London awaiting open-heart surgery, Papandreou, 69, announced last week that he would seek a divorce from Margaret, his American-born wife of 37 years, when he returns to Athens. In Britain the Greek leader has been photographed holding hands with Olympic Airways Flight Attendant Dimitra Liani...
Doctors have long suspected that the heart could heal itself even when damaged by a heart attack or during surgery -- if only there were a way to let it rest. For more than 20 years, researchers have been trying to develop implantable pumps that temporarily take over part of the heart's job. Some half a dozen such devices are now available, most of them experimental, bulky and requiring risky open-heart surgery. But at a medical conference last week in Reno, O. Howard Frazier, director of the transplant program at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, described the first...
Without extensive tests on animals, many of medicine's most spectacular advances, from antibiotics to heart transplants, would never have occurred. But increasingly, the tables have been turned: the guinea pigs have become the patients. Today veterinarians treat cancer, implant artificial joints, even perform open-heart surgery. Animal medicine in the U.S. has been transformed into a $5 billion industry that rivals human health care in sophistication. Says Franklin Loew, dean of the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass.: "There are no technical boundaries to the application of human medicine to animals...
AILING. Paul Gann, 75, conservative tax crusader who in 1978 co-sponsored (with Howard Jarvis) California's property-tax-cutting Proposition 13 and in later years led ballot fights to limit state and local spending; with acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome, contracted from blood transfusions he received during open-heart surgery in 1982; in Carmichael, Calif...
Tommy Walker, the mastermind behind Harvard's 350th stadium show, the Liberty Weekend celebrations and the 1984 Summer Olympic ceremonies, died last Monday while undergoing open-heart surgery in Birmingham...