Word: transplante
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...issues before us require both a hunger for truth and a humility about recognizing it, because progress can sprint right past our ability to process it. Blood transfusions were considered creepy before World War II. Transplant a heart? That's not just a pump, critics said; it's the seat of your soul. You hardly ever hear the chilly term test-tube baby anymore, because what was once odd and unnatural is now a routine salvation to millions of childless couples...
...transplant the work of an author who exercised such meticulous control over his plays that he itemized the number of seconds between pauses, the precise level of gloomy light? Presumably Beckett meant "First Love" and the novel trilogy to remain in the forms in which he created them. Yet there's reason in Colgan's audacity. He wanted to prove that even Beckett's fiction has theatrical verve, that the static can be dramatic, that pieces written for the eye can entrance the ear, that, for this most "internal" author, the page was also a stage. Colgan's strongest case...
...perhaps the television coup of the season. Live on the Phil Donahue show last Tuesday, a call was placed to Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids. Looking on were Donahue's guests for the day: the parents of a California infant known as Baby Jesse, who desperately needed a heart transplant. A spokeswoman for the hospital got on the line and was persuaded to reveal the impossibly good news: ''We are donating a heart to the baby,'' she declared. The cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went...
When the patient is a child, the ability of parents to provide care becomes relevant. Young transplant recipients require constant monitoring for rejection, lifelong medication and special precautions to avoid infection. For these reasons, says Ethicist Arthur Caplan of the Hastings Center at Hastings- on-Hudson, N.Y., Loma Linda officials ''were definitely right in considering ) whether the family can monitor and care for the baby effectively.'' Jesse's surgeon, Leonard Bailey, also defended the hospital. ''You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee,'' he exclaimed. ''The family has to be very dependable and constant.'' While Loma Linda refused...
Unlike these older, more popular therapies, Vet-Stem offers - for the time being - better medicine to animals than any allowed for their owners: even though it does not use controversial embryonic stem cells, the fatty-tissue stem-cell transplant has not yet secured FDA approval for use in humans. But pets are reaping the benefits in droves. Since Vet-Stem began offering its online certification course in January, more than 1,000 vets have signed up to take it, many at the urging of their patients' owners. The FDA has so far approved the treatment for animals' orthopedic problems...