Word: organization
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...hearing will emphasize "the importance of being an organ donor in a nation where 47,000 people are awaiting life-saving transplant operations," said Kennedy press aide Darcy...
Disheartening; heart-wrenching, and yet thoroughly hearty, Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" continues the gutsy Delvena Theatre Company's four-year investigation into the human love-organ. In the crammed seating of Leland Center, where the front-row audience members rest their legs on the worn Oriental rug that covers the entire set, there's no escaping the screaming, the whining and the drunken bodily noises that saturate the production. Heart-warming it is--for the most part...
...bone-marrow work and solid-organ transplant work have traditionally been two separate fields of medicine. "The big misconception," says Starzl, "was not realizing that the acceptance and tolerance of solid-organ grafts are due to the same mechanisms described by Medawar. There is a seamless work of transplantation immunology. It's so damn simple, it's crushing...
Simple in theory, perhaps. But there is a long way to go before mutual cell assimilation, known as chimerism, between a donor organ and its recipient can be achieved with such relative ease. And much of the work being done is with mice, dogs and monkeys, which have been used successfully in assimilation studies by James Gozzo, dean of the Bouve College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Boston's Northeastern University, as well as by other researchers, including Judith Thomas, director of the Transplant Center at the University of Alabama. They have found that by first transplanting some donor...
Fast forward to February 1996, when officials at the World Health Organization's Geneva headquarters got word of a possible Ebola-virus outbreak in the remote village of Mayibout, Gabon. It is hard to imagine a more frightening report: ever since the first known outbreak in 1976, the virulent Ebola virus has been near the top of every Central African's list of the worst ways to die. With the 1994 publication of the best seller The Hot Zone, that fear had gone global. The symptoms--catastrophic hemorrhaging, bloody diarrhea and the literal disintegration of one organ after another--were...