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...choice. But Benny's doctors would like to buy him some more time. Perhaps, they argue, they could figure a way to vary the amount of the antirejection drugs he is taking so the side effects are not quite so miserable. There is also the possibility of yet another transplant. The chances he could survive a year after a third operation, however, are generally considered to be less than 50%. "We proposed trying to rescue his liver," says Dr. Andreas Tzakis, head of liver transplantation at the University of Miami. "He refused." One thing is sure: as Benny loses weight...
PHIL GRAMM. The Texas Senator is a powerful fund raiser and works tirelessly on behalf of G.O.P. candidates. Respected for his toughness and his ruthless resistance to federal spending, he remains abrasive and little liked. As a Reagan White House veteran put it, "Gramm hasn't had a personality transplant...
Another Holworthy transplant who is a member of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the Harvard Krokodiloes said the University's plan could backfire...
When a patient undergoes a transplant, there is a risk of the body rejection the new organ. Drugs like FK506 suppress the immune system's inclination to act against, and possibly reject, the new organ...
...anything, Michael Apted's "Blink" is pretty damn scary. Madeleine Stowe plays Emma Brody, a woman who receives a cornea transplant after twenty years of blindness only to witness a murder, In a new twist on the "blind-women erotic thriller," hallucinations plague Emma as a result of the surgery. Emma's eyes and brain, so unused to processing sight, replay images long after she has actually seen them. Director Apted and script writer Dana Stevens milk this replay mechanism dry in the name of frightening their audience, The only images that pop up on emma are horrible ones...