Word: organism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the nation's largest center for pediatrics will house improved facilities for cardiac surgery, bone marrow transplants, neo-natal care, and organ transplants, according to physician-in-chief David G. Nathan...
Infants in need of organ transplants greatly outnumber donors, but anencephalics have normally not been used. Reason: their organs have deteriorated too much by the time they are legally brain dead. But shortly after Baby Gabriel was born two weeks ago, Dr. Tim Frewen, head of pediatric intensive care at Children's Hospital in London, Ont., had her put on a life- support system to keep her organs healthy. Two days later, a test of her ability to breathe on her own was negative; three doctors, concluding all brain activity had ceased, declared Gabriel legally dead. Still on the life...
Callahan's long-term limits -- medical, economic and social -- will seem harsh to many. He would have Congress restrict Medicare payments for such ! procedures as organ transplants, heart bypasses and kidney dialysis for the aged. States should give legal status to "living wills," allowing individuals to demand that they not be kept alive artificially. Respirators would not be used for the terminally ill. On the emotional issue of extending life by use of feeding tubes, he reasons that as external life extenders in some cases, they also should be treated as artificial intrusions. His logic moves inexorably...
...nine-page advertising supplement that appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal was a first for the venerable organ of capitalism. In enthusiastic but occasionally stilted prose, the Communist government of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued an open invitation to Western businesses to invest in the Soviet Union. Beginning with a Gorbachev message on perestroika, or restructuring, of the economy, the insert highlights Soviet attempts to facilitate joint ventures with the West, touts tourist attractions and hails Soviet achievements in areas like eye surgery...
...Fred Cotton's farewell party on the grounds of the Amador Officer's Club. There are more than 250 guests, nearly all of them middle-aged and conspicuously American, wearing colorful shirts and dresses, Hawaiian leis draped around their necks. Azcarraga's pudgy fingers are surprisingly agile on the organ keyboard as he pumps out the Scottish farewell. But then they should be. Although he is over 70, he plays this tune quite often. Most of the guests get to hear it pretty frequently too. "You say goodbye a lot around here these days," says Dick Morgan, who is being...