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...that she was about two weeks old at the time of surgery and had been born three weeks premature. Baby Fae was referred to Loma Linda by a pediatrician in Barstow, Calif. The 546-bed facility is one of more than 60 U.S. hospitals operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and has a fine reputation in pediatric heart surgery. Fae was suffering from hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a fatal condition said to affect one in 12,000 newborns. In children with this defect, the left side of the heart, including its main pumping chamber, the left ventricle...
...surgeon from Takoma Park, Md., has devoted his career to trying to help victims of hypoplastic heart. A Seventh-day Adventist, he was educated at Loma Linda University Medical School, the only Adventist medical college in the world. Bailey had first considered using xenografts during his residency at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, where, he admits, the idea "drew snickers." When he tried to develop the procedure at Loma Linda, he found it difficult to get his research papers published and impossible to get funding. "I felt rather lonely," he reflected last week. "People didn't understand the importance...
...thought to number up to several hundred in a total Cuban prisoner population of 7,000, refuse to wear the yellow uniforms made especially for them as badges of dishonor, so prison officials do not issue them any clothing. For 17 years, said the Rev. Humberto Noble Alexander, a Seventh-day Adventist who was jailed in 1962, many plantados "wore nothing but underwear we made ourselves from bed sheets." Noble's crime: sermonizing from his pulpit about Lucifer (a reference to Castro) seducing and deceiving the angels (the Cuban people). Once, anticipating a prison visit by foreign delegations, guards...
...million-member Seventh-day Adventist Church is normally the most doctrinally placid and prosperous of faiths. Lately, however, it has fallen into unaccustomed uproar. For starters, church members are suing Adventist officials in an Oregon court for fraud and breach of fiduciary trust, stemming from the 1981 bankruptcy of fellow Adventist Donald Davenport, a Los Angeles developer. The suit charges that without adequately checking Davenport out, Adventist clergy blithely invested church trust funds with him and urged church members to make their own investments. As his empire collapsed, Davenport supposedly used newly raised moneys to cover payments due to previous...
...Bible, said she received a vision explaining that on Oct. 22 Christ had entered a new "sanctuary" in heaven to begin "in vestigative judgment" of the lives and works of believers. Then White reported a second vision that confirmed the necessity of Saturday worship (hence the name Seventh-day Adventists). Followers came to regard White's numerous visions and books as divinely inspired interpretations of the Bible, as well as a guide to proper views on everything from vegetarianism (pro) to Darwinism...