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...sight. But the research already has benefited some patients. New knowledge about the immune system has inspired doctors to be more careful when treating Kaposi's to use therapies that do not lead to further suppression of the immune system. Fauci of NIH has conducted a bone marrow transplant that bolsters a patient's immune system. Along with many other researchers, he is testing the effects on AIDS patients of new forms of interferon, a component of the human immune system that can now be reproduced by genetic engineering...
...cost, the 375-lb. encumbrance and the siege of postoperative ailments have all raised doubts about the use of artificial hearts. Said Dr. Michael DeBakey, the noted heart-transplant surgeon from Houston: "To be a success, the heart must restore the individual to normal life. If all it does is keep the patient alive, it has not succeeded." DeBakey and fellow Houston Transplant Expert Denton Cooley therefore favor transplants, which now offer recipients a 70% to 80% chance of surviving a year and a 42% chance of living five years. The best use of the mechanical heart, says Cooley...
Though the Utah team is looking for a second artificial-heart candidate, it plans to proceed slowly. "The artificial heart today is at the stage that the transplants were when those operations began 16 years ago," says Stanford Cardiologist Philip Oyer. "Then no one knew how a patient would do, and there was a lot of skepticism." An encouraging note is that the world's first mechanical-heart recipient survived nearly six times as long as the first heart-transplant patient, who lilived only 19 days. And Clark, for all his suffering, said he would not hesitate to recommend...
...most were Irish Americans urging independence for Northern Ireland. Their placards outside Fox's gates: BRITS OUT OF IRELAND and, more immediately, BRITS OUT OF AMERICA. A small anti-anti-British crowd gathered too. "I wasn't planning to watch for the Queen," said British Transplant Lesley Heathcote, 25, who wore a BRITAIN is GREAT T shirt and had a pet chow in a Union Jack bandanna. "But when I saw all these demonstrators, I decided to come back and give her a bit of support...
RECOVERING. Gary Coleman, 15, cheeky child star of television's Different Strokes; from an abscess around the site of his 1973 kidney transplant; in Los Angeles. The problem was discovered while he awaited a second donated kidney; the first is failing. Coleman suffers from nephritis, a congenital kidney ailment, and until a year ago took drugs that inhibited the disease (and stunted his growth; he is now 4 ft. 2 in.). When he is well enough, he will try again for a new transplant...