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Medical and ethical debate over liberalized abortion laws has centered on the woman and the unborn child. A byproduct of legal abortions, however, can affect the vital interests of a third party: a desperately ill youngster who can be helped by a transplant from an aborted fetus. Such operations are still rare. But Dr. Arthur Ammann of the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center has performed two gland transplants that may encourage increasing use of fetal tissue...
...Transplanting human hearts is a family business in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, is famous for performing the world's first one in 1967 as well as seven others since then. Barnard's chief assistant in all of them was his kid brother-quiet, unassuming Dr. Marius Barnard, 44. Now Marius has completed his own first heart transplant, and Patient John Montgomery is progressing "exceptionally well." Off on a South American cruise with his young wife and baby, Brother Chris cabled congratulations: "I couldn't be more proud if I had done the operation...
...necessitated the removal of the organ. Now, in order to prevent a fatal buildup of toxins in his blood, he must report to the university hospital three times a week for kidney dialysis, a six-hour cleansing process that enables him to survive until he can get a kidney transplant. Since his illness wiped out his small savings, Shevlin lives on welfare payments of $178 a month, while the State of California pays for most of the cost of his treatments -which amounts to $3,000 a month...
...Transplant Bargain. Some doctors see home dialysis as a solution. This costs $15,000 in the first year, when equipment must be purchased, but drops to about $5,000 a year thereafter. Home dialysis requires training in the use of the machine, however, and adjustment to the long hours of self-treatment. "This machine ruins your ego completely," says Dr. Eugene Hoffman Sr., senior medical adviser to Blue Cross of Southern California. "People who use it have nothing else to hang...
Born. To Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, South African heart surgeon and transplant pioneer; and his second wife Barbara, 21, daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist: their first child, a son; in Cape Town...