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...winter of 1981. In the space of just three months, he treated four patients with an unusual lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PCP is what doctors term an "opportunistic infection," one that strikes people when their immune response is weakened. Typical victims are frail cancer patients and transplant recipients. Gottlieb's four patients departed strikingly from this pattern. Though tests showed their immune systems were severely depressed, all four were young men around 30 who had previously enjoyed excellent health. All were also avowed homosexuals, three of them with a history of many partners...
...suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
About a quarter of the way through the novel the reader learns, with a queasy, freezing, absolutely genuine shock, that Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate version of England where the government raises cloned human beings in order to harvest their vital organs for transplant. Although they don't know this when we first meet them, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are clones, born only to grow up and be taken apart piecemeal...
When it comes to organ transplants, demand has always outstripped supply. In the U.S. alone, more than 87,000 people are on the waiting list for transplant surgery, and every 13 minutes another name is added. An average of 17 people die every day for lack of organs. Yet a new poll suggests that plenty of people want to donate. They simply don't know how. The survey, by the Coalition on Donation, found that while 9 out of 10 Americans support organ and tissue donation, only 3 out of 10 know the proper steps to take...
...sudser about a back-street woman who embarrasses her daughter (Anne Shirley) as the girl rises in society.We won't describe the ending, except to say that if Stanwyck doesn't make you cry, we would be tempted to refund your money--to help pay for a heart transplant...