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...donor is $1,500; for a cornea, $4,000; for a patch of skin, $50. Two centers of the thriving kidney trade are Bombay, where private clinics cater to Indians and a foreign clientele dominated by wealthy Arabs, and Madras, a center for patients from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Renal patients in India and Pakistan who cannot find a relative to donate a kidney are permitted to buy newspaper advertisements offering living donors up to $4,300 for the organ. Mohammad Aqeel, a poor Karachi tailor who recently sold one of his kidneys for $2,600, said he needed...
...most touching and poignant cases encountered by C.C.U. staffers concerned a gravely ill youth named Carmelo. The boy had a chronic renal condition, epilepsy and heart trouble that left him, at 14, just 43 in. tall and dependent on dialysis and a battery of medications. In addition, family troubles had rendered him angry and very lonely. For more than a year, the C.C.U. "doctors" spent time with the teenager, who rarely talked and refused to walk. Then one day comic magician Mark Mitton taught him a "mind-reading" card game, and Carmelo began to open up. The boy took great...
...fact that two kinds of vaccine are necessary for many people this year may be a further source of confusion about who should be inoculated. According to the CDC, the two-shot candidates include anyone under the age of 35 with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, cancer or a suppressed immune response; parents or siblings of children who are at risk; anyone under age 18 who must take aspirin (the combination of aspirin and a viral infection has been linked to a sometimes fatal brain disorder called Reye's syndrome). People over...
...more recently with a process similar to that used at Rogosin. Racked by angina at age two, she can now climb a flight of stairs without stopping. What is even more impressive to scientists is that X-ray studies show that her disease has actually regressed. "Atherosclerosis of her renal artery has completely disappeared," exults Yamamoto, and blockage around the aortic valve "is almost gone...
...biggest loss so far was a case decided last fall, where the judge awarded a patient $1,250,000 for damages suffered when Beth Israel doctors accidentally cut her renal cave artery while cleaning out her spinal column, Creasey said. But he stressed the difficulty of distinguishing between the high risks of some procedures and actual malpractice...