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...middle of August, Epps went on leave to undergo a kidney transplant but instead faced unplanned cardiac bypass surgery, the veteran administrator said yesterday in an interview from his University Hall office...
...when it isn't a matter of life and death, the new reimbursement policy can hurt. In a study published last year, a team of researchers that included Dr. Daniel Present of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City reported that the antirejection drug cyclosporine, usually used for transplant patients, helped patients with colitis. After the study was completed, he prescribed the immunosuppressive drug for one of his patients, who had a similar condition called Crohn's disease, only to learn that her health-maintenance organization would not pay for it. The woman's father finally...
RECOVERING. LARRY HAGMAN, 63, formerly hard-drinking actor who played the much reviled J.R. Ewing on Dallas; after a liver transplant; in Los Angeles...
...skeleton of a strapping, adolescent Homo erectus. As director of the Kenya Wildlife Service from 1989 to 1994, Richard revitalized the country's national parks and deterred poachers, but he made political enemies in the process. As combative and tough as his father, he has survived a kidney transplant and the loss of both legs below the knee after a plane crash...
Over the years, Mantle may have lost several fortunes, but he never lost his sense of humor. At a press conference a month after the transplant, Mantle spotted noted collector Barry Halper and asked, "Barry, what did you pay for my old liver?" The prognosis for Mantle was hopeful then. But an undetected lung cancer began to spread, and on Aug. 4 he re-entered the hospital...