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...kidney patients. "By early 1980," recalls Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading transplant surgeon, "we had a sense that there was a tremendous change in outlook in both kidneys and livers, and that enthusiasm quickly spread to the heart." Cyclosporine is highly toxic, however, and researchers have begun to look for alternatives. Ideally, they foresee a therapy that would prevent rejection but also persuade the immune system to tolerate a transplanted organ even after treatment is halted...
...Henderson. But the blaze spread so swiftly that company fire crews dropped their hoses and sprinted for the exits, followed by most of the 74-man work force. Within minutes, the flames reached containers of highly combustible sodium perchlorate and other chemicals, and four explosions hurled fireballs and toxic black plumes skyward. A concussion measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale flipped over cars and shattered thousands of windows in the Las Vegas area. Although 350 people were treated for burns or minor injuries, there appeared to be only two deaths. Nevada Governor Richard Bryan called it a "miracle" that...
...Bonefish was a 30-year cold war veteran used for simulating Soviet submarines in naval exercises. But the war games turned deadly last week. As the Bonefish ran at periscope depth 160 miles east of Cape Canaveral, blasts erupted from one of its two battery compartments. Flash fire and toxic gases forced the 92-man crew to abandon ship. Twenty-two crewmen were hospitalized; Navy salvage workers later found the bodies of three crewmen aboard the vessel. The Navy has not yet determined the cause of the accident...
NORFOLK, Va.--One of the Navy's last diesel-electric submarines wallowed helpless on the surface yesterday awaiting a salvage vessel after an underwater explosion and toxic fire injured 22 sailors and left three missing...
...explosion triggered a fire that filled the 219-foot vessel with smoke and toxic fumes. The sub surfaced and Mike Wilson, the commander, ordered it evacuated...