Word: transplante
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DIED. Leif Stenberg, 53, reputed (but never convicted) Swedish crime boss of the 1970s, who received Europe's first mechanical-heart transplant seven months ago; of respiratory and circulatory ailments; in Stockholm...
...surgeon who performed the world's first human-heart transplant, South Africa's Christiaan Barnard helped his patients feel years younger. Now the doctor is taking a cosmetic approach to the same idea. He wants to help people take the years off their faces. Next month Barnard, 63, will visit Wall Street to tell investors about his new line of skin-care products, called Glycel, which promises to help erase wrinkles through a scientific process. Barnard and a team of biologists developed the formula at an institute in Basel, Switzerland. Barnard's business partner is a former banker...
Though close relatives of transplant patients have tended to be stoic, the toll has been considerable. It was only after the death of Barney Clark, the first man to receive a Jarvik-7, that his wife Una Loy admitted her travail. The stress of the 112-day vigil was so great, she said, "I had a hard time realizing what day of the week...
DIED. Lucia Chase, 88, indomitable co-founder and, from 1945 to 1980, co-director and financial angel of the American Ballet Theatre, to which she helped transplant the traditions of the great European troupes and which she helped forge into one of the world's best companies; in New York City. With Co-Director Oliver Smith, she maintained an eclectic repertory that mixed full-length classics with the works of innovative choreographers, including Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille and Antony Tudor. Chase nurtured great dancers like the Americans Nora Kaye and Cynthia Gregory, as well as the Soviet defectors Rudolf...
DIED. HAMILTON NAKI, 78, South African surgical pioneer with no formal training who was a central member of the team, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, that performed the first human heart transplant--yet went unrecognized for some three decades because of apartheid restrictions on blacks holding jobs deemed appropriate only for whites; of a heart attack; in Langa, South Africa. A gardener at the University of Cape Town, Naki got his start as a lab assistant when a doctor needed a hand while operating on a giraffe. Naki's skills ultimately led Barnard to request his help in the landmark...