Word: organism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently commissioned State of Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplants makes it clear that these operations, and "Baby Fae" and her transplanted baboon's heart are much more than isolated novelties created by media hype. In fact, they bring into public focus a controversy over the medical ethics and social implications of organ transplants. The task force has completed its study, addressing the problem of how to allocate organ transplants in the face of too few donor organs and too little money. Aside from this immediate concern, one of its major goals is, according to Marc S. Roberts, professor...
...operation took place, has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to perform another five artificial-heart implants. One candidate is now in the hospital for evaluation, but will most likely be turned down. At the same time, two Southern girls are scheduled for complex variations of organ replacements this month. Cynthia Bratcher, 6, of Scottsville, Ky., will be taken to Birmingham for an operation that will install a second heart inside her. Meanwhile, Mary Cheatham, 17, of Fort Worth, will go to Pittsburgh for simultaneous transplanting of heart and liver. (The first recipient of such a double transplant...
...Thomas Starzl, a noted transplant surgeon at the University Health Center in Pittsburgh, argues that "the cost of transplants is no higher than the cost of dying from severe diseases of vital organs." A patient can run up expenses of $250,000 before getting a liver transplant, Starzl points out. Nevertheless, the prices of organ transplants remain staggering: heart transplants cost somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 (Clark's hospital bill was $200,000, not counting $9,000 for the artificial heart, $7,400 for its pump, and the $3,000 or so per year that it would have...
...Organ transplants are by no means the only miracle cures provided by high-tech medicine. A hemophiliac's Autoplex injections, which stimulate blood coagulation, can cost up to $100,000 to keep him alive for three months. Dialysis machines for kidney patients, which pump the blood through an artificial cleansing device, cost nearly $20,000 per year...
...surgery performed less than two years ago. "The scarring made it difficult to identify structures," explained Lansing, who assisted in the operation. "It's like looking through a fog." As a result, instead of taking the usual five minutes, it took half an hour just to extract the organ. Once that was accomplished, DeVries easily installed the Jarvik heart, using the technique he had practiced and honed on hundreds of animals...