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...star who has branched out from his ongoing hit series, Different Strokes, to make TV and feature films (his latest, Playing with Fire, about a teen-age arsonist, is scheduled to air early next year); in fair condition and improving after a three-hour kidney transplant operation; in Los Angeles. It was Coleman's second transplant, replacing an eleven-year-old donated kidney that began to fail two years ago. He is expected to resume shooting his TV series in seven weeks...
...baboon heart fails, but a doctor defends the transplant...
...response to questions last week, Bailey said that Baby Fae suffered little pain in her final hours. "I believe she suffered a great deal more before I saw her than after," he insisted. "The best days of her short life were after her transplant." The parents, he maintained, had no regrets about the experiment: "They felt that it was an enriching experience...
...hospital called Fae's mother within the next two days and, as Bailey explained, proposed the baboon heart transplant. A friend recalls that Teresa "decided she had to do anything possible to try and save her baby's life." Barstow residents who are close to the mother say that she was well aware of the experimental nature of the operation and was not pressured into agreeing...
...Joseph Vicanti, assistant professor of medicine and administrator of transplant operations at Children's believes that doctors are out to do their best for the community. "I am not in favor of further regulation because it layers things and stifles creativity. In situational review is enough...