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Here are some grim, preventable statistics: Last year, 5,700 Americans died waiting for organ transplants, and right now more than 80,000 people are praying for word that a life-saving donor has been located. It?s not that there aren?t enough organs out there to go around - it?s simply that available organs are not being earmarked for donation. They?re being buried or cremated instead...
...been trying for years to change that pattern, trying to find ways to encourage donation, debating the ethical quandaries inherent in such a delicate, and personal, choice. Monday, a committee appointed by the department of Health and Human Services began compiling a list of possible solutions to the organ availability dilemma. Each of the suggestions has circulated in ethicists? circles for years; the most controversial of the proposals would provide a small monetary compensation to the survivors of organ donors. The consensus could be there, at least in the medical community: In a statement made a few weeks...
...recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart, which kept him alive for 151 days; in Louisville, Kentucky. Doctors had given Tools, a former telephone-company worker, only a month to live before the AbioCor device was implanted at the beginning of July. His death, from internal bleeding and organ failure, was not related to the mechanical heart. DIED. GEORGE HARRISON, 58, the Beatles' quiet and wry lead guitarist, of cancer; in Los Angeles. A proponent of Eastern culture, the youngest Beatle wrote some of the group's most lyrical songs (Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps...
...audience eruption, Double Trouble positively tears into “Scuttle Buttin,” soaring with impossible runs over Layton’s fast and loose percussion. While maturity had refined his playing, Vaughan clearly hadn’t lost his competitive fire. Grounded by Reese Waynans on organ in addition to Layton and Shannon, Vaughan returns to “Pride and Joy” for the symmetry of it all, this time transcending his original by infusing voice and playing with a thick, raw edge. Later, Double Trouble reprises “Texas Flood...
Moore led the way in the development of organ transplantation and heart surgery methods, heading the team that performed the first organ transplant in 1954, transferring a kidney between identical twins...