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...That [success] proved the basis fortransplantation was a solid one," said FriedmanProfessor of Pathology emeritus Gustave J. Dammin,the pathologist who used skin grafts--smallsamples of the twins' skin--to determine that thecompatibility between donor and recipient wasperfect...
...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...
...hungry Third World that biotechnology offers the greatest hope. Washington University plant pathologist Roger Beachy is working on introducing genes for disease resistance into cassava, a critical food source for much of Africa. Scientists at the International Potato Center in Peru and the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines are applying the tools of genetic engineering to improve the major crops of South America and Asia. Before the middle of the next century, experts warn, world population may reach 10 billion, and agriculture had better keep up. By that time, the planet's crop and livestock growers will probably...
When word spread last June that Atlanta surgeon William Logan Jr. and pathologist Kenneth Alonso had found a promising new treatment for AIDS patients, hopes soared, lights flashed, and a media circus rolled into town. % TV cameras descended on the operating room to record the miraculous recovery of a patient with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, whom the doctors had treated by heating his blood to kill the AIDS virus...
Kevorkian, though, is not like other doctors. A retired pathologist from Royal Oak, Mich., he has long been a pugnacious maverick, recommending, among other things, a scheme whereby doctors would render death-row patients unconscious so their living bodies could be used for medical experiments. In recent years Kevorkian has fought hard for a patient's right to commit suicide and a doctor's right to help. Last fall he invented the easily replicable suicide machine using $45 worth of hardware and tried to advertise it in a local medical journal. When the editors refused, he peddled the story...