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...Minnesota. One day I was invited to lend a hand on work on a heart-lung machine. That's when I became fascinated by open-heart surgery. That's what led me back to South Africa to run my own cardiac-surgery unit, and to the 1967 heart transplant. Before that, I had applied for a job in London, and again I was turned down. If I'd got it, I wouldn't have done the heart transplant. So you see my life is full of luck...
...This was not a deliberation of a purely scientific nature. Frist, a former heart and lung transplant surgeon, carries weight with this White House - because he is a physician, because he has a personal friendship with the President, and also because of his official role as the Senate?s Liaison to the White House. With his decision, the Senator has sent a message to President Bush, who is currently embroiled in the most contentious issue of his short term: Should he or should he not give the go-ahead to federal funding for embryonic stem cell research? Frist's proposal...
...been flattering, for a while, to be with a man who can so thoroughly lose himself in a woman. On the other hand, there's so little you in you that I suspect you could lose yourself in any woman." Never mind whether Wallingford's hand transplant will succeed. Can he become a better person...
More than 4,000 Americans on any given day are waiting for a heart transplant. Because of a shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately ill man last week, it seemed like the answer to a lot of prayers. The patient, whose name has not been released, is described as a diabetic in his mid to late 50s who developed congestive heart failure after suffering several heart attacks. If he survives and his health improves...
Originally, only people who were already on a waiting list for a heart transplant could get an LVAD. The pumps simply weren't designed to be permanent. But so many patients have done so well on the newer-generation devices--playing golf or even tennis--that doctors are considering whether to expand their use. We should have a better idea later this year when researchers finish analyzing data from a study in which LVADs were given to a group of patients with end-stage congestive heart failure who, because of age or other medical conditions, were not eligible...