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...crowds at Glycel counters and from glossy magazine ads at would-be customers is the image of a handsome, clear-eyed man--not a hunky male model, mind you, but an even more potent lure: Dr. Christiaan Barnard. The South African surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant is now, according to advertisements, the co-developer of a patented GSL ingredient, the key to "rejuvenating" skin in Glycel products. Barnard's endorsement is the latest and most successful wrinkle in the lucrative skin game. Introduced only last month, Glycel has already topped $5 million in sales. The famed surgeon...
...differ on how to get there, but Gramm-Rudman requires that Congress and the White House arrive at the same bottom line. "They can't just declare the President's budget to be dead," says a White House aide. "They'll have to at least do a heart transplant...
...those cuts, Miller added some zingers of his own: elimination of funding to aid highway safety; deep, possibly fatal reductions in the Public Health Service's organ-transplant network; and the end of many child abuse-prevention grants. He would also eliminate Amtrak subsidies, rejected by Congress this year because it would effectively end long-haul passenger trains...
...fact that Simple Minds lead singer got a voice transplant with Billy Idol...
...Coast, Richard Dallara, 33, an auto mechanic from Sonoma, Calif., was near death, also awaiting a donor heart. Then, within one week, all three became willing subjects in the newest medical experiment in borrowing time: the use of a mechanical pump as a temporary "bridge" to a human-heart transplant...