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...Episode 4, “Kamikaze Bingo,” left me laughing for longer than the duration of the show itself. This week’s show, “Lewis Needs a Kidney,” was David at his finest: Richard Lewis needs a kidney transplant, and Larry and Jeff decide to take the test for compatibility. When both pass, we witness what is, to my knowledge, the most contentious game of eenie-meenie-minie-moe yet played in human history. Have no fear, “Curb” is still the funniest show on television...
...chilling work to date. This is no small achievement for a man who produced “Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance,” the collection which included “Dog Days,” the tale of a teenaged boy who receives a canine heart transplant. Another Burns favorite is “Big Baby,” an uglier version of “Desperate Housewives” with more violence, told from the point of view of a strange child...
...Xeno Chronicles,” G. Wayne Miller recounts his two years spent in Sachs’ laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Sachs is the director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center. The result is a revealing look at Sachs’ attempts to transplant organs from pigs into baboons, hoping that if a baboon won’t reject the organ, humans won’t either. And this is where Sachs’ research efforts lie: investigating new ways to prevent baboons’ immune systems from attacking the foreign organs, a task that comes with painstakingly...
...raises several interesting questions, but, in a slim 206 pages, Miller manages an honest stab at only a few of them. What issues of identity would a pig-organ recipient face? What are the ethics of growing and harvesting pigs solely for their organs—and should we transplant said organs into humans who, having brought themselves to their knees before the medical community, are sick in the first place because they’ve eaten too many pork chops...
...After all, a face transplant, unlike a heart or lung transplant, is not a life-saving procedure. Since the benefit is not as great, the risk of complications looms larger. Surgery is just a first step. A person who receives a face transplant will need to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of his or her life. Side effects from these medications may lead to diabetes, cancer and even death. Despite all that, the body may still reject the new face, leading to more and more complicated surgery...