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Pancreatic cell transplant. The problem in most juvenile diabetics is that the insulin-producing cells within the pancreas, called the islets of Langerhans, are no longer functioning properly. (In adult diabetics, insulin supplies are generally adequate, but somehow the body is unable to release them or use them properly.) Doctors have tried transplanting fresh islets from healthy pancreases, but the immune system tends to reject them...
...body wastes from the blood. The technique works, no question; the problem is money: about $25,000 a year in special centers, about half that if the treatment can be performed at home. Since 1973, the government has picked up the tab for dialysis (as well as for kidney transplant operations). The program now covers some 44,000 patients at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. By the 1980s the projection is 60,000 patients at an estimated cost exceeding $2 billion a year. Some observers wonder whether the program has been efficient. Even more important...
...colleagues, admitted that the operation was not up to his usual high standards but insisted that it was "cosmetically acceptable." Instead, he attacked O'Hare as perennially dissatisfied, schizoid and a cosmetic-surgery junkie. She has had nine nose jobs, an eyelid lift, a face lift and hair transplant, said Bellin, who had performed two of those operations, as well as eyelid surgery for her boyfriend...
...they've chosen talented treatments, and the singing is impressive for a college production. Perhaps the fact that conservatory students or graduates take all but one of the main roles helps to explain that. But trying to take Vienna out of Strauss is like trying to perform a heart transplant--you'd better have the replacement handy. The first act, for example, could as easily be set in Yonkers as in Vienna. True, the Lowell dining hall has little potential to be converted into a ballroom, but Lowell Opera gives up in despair from the start...
...name for Bowden]-$6,000," then added that a rifle had been purchased. In one of Thevis' datebooks, there is an entry on Oct. 25, the day of the Underbill murder: "RU killed." A diary also showed that the balding pornographer had been scheduled to get a hair transplant the day after the ambush but had called...