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...shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately ill man last week, it seemed like the answer to a lot of prayers. The patient, whose name has not been released, is described as a diabetic in his mid to late 50s who developed congestive heart failure after suffering several heart attacks. If he survives and his health improves even a little, there's no telling how many other lives might someday be saved with similar artificial...
...forget about total artificial hearts like Abiomed's? Not at all. There will always be some folks whose hearts are so worn out they cannot be salvaged. A review panel convened by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute in 1999 estimated that between 5,000 and 10,000 patients a year might be helped by the development of total artificial hearts. But as with many medical advances, the early going will probably be grim. Doctors in Louisville will consider their experiment an astounding success if their patient manages to live an extra two months. And if he dies before...
...strategy was firmly in place when the president played street football on the Fourth of July, visited vacationers at the Jefferson Memorial and visited a hospital to check in on patients on the front lines of the HMO struggle. Sure, there were a few glitches: Bush looked goofy when he mugged for the cameras with the Philadelphia Phillies mascot, and it turned out that the hospital patient Bush spoke to didn?t have any hard luck stories to tell about his HMO. But even though the gaffes, the message was loud and clear: Bush is a warm, huggable president...
...that because stem cells are undifferentiated, (they aren?t committed to becoming a liver cell, say, or a blood cell), scientists may be able to prompt them into becoming whatever type of cell is needed. The cells may also be able to replace damaged or sick cells in a patient with an injury or degenerative disease...
...most controversial method, scientists can also pull stem cells from aborted fetuses, first asking for signed consent from a patient who?d previously (and independently) decided to terminate her pregnancy. This is the procedure most often highlighted by pro-life activists who oppose supporting stem cell research...