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...disease which obstructs her blood supply, lowers the level of her infection-fighting white blood cells, and leaves her susceptible to serious internal bleeding. Moreover, a 50 percent chance exists that her liver will become cancerous. According to her doctors. Jorie's only hope for survival is a liver transplant, an operation performed at only five hospitals in the United States, including Massachusetts General and one at the University of Minnesota. "The Minnesota hospital won't even look at her until we get $100,000 in the bank," Lisa Hill says. "When you've got a terminal child...
Jorie's family is only one of several in this country that continues to worry about raising funds for a child's liver transplant. The Wethingtons of Wauconda, Ill. have a 10-month-old son. Brett, who was born with biliary artresia, a condition which prevents his liver from functioning properly. Last July, in one of his weekly radio addresses, President Reagan asked the country to aid a Texas infant suffering from the same disease. Reagan hoped to locate a liver for young Ashley Bailey. But a lack of transplantable organs is only one of the problems that faces...
...National Institute of Health (NIH) deem a liver transplant an "experimental" rather than "therapeutic" operation. Those terms are akin to international classifications of trade status, like "friendly" or "most favored nation"--phrases whose superficial similarities camouflage their varied meanings. In this context, "experimental" offers little favor to children like Brett and Jorie, considered by their doctors especially good candidates for transplants. For neither private insurance companies--which generally quote federal standards to their clients--nor Meidcare or Medicaid will fund such operations...
...Beacon Company of Boston now has the opportunity to buy the land on which the sign stands, said Monique Doyle, a company spokesman. The realty firm would work with the Coca-Cola company to remove the sign and transplant it to the new site...
SURGERY The Ultimate Operation For weeks, and months, and even years, surgical teams at more than 20 medical centers around the world have been standing ready to make the first transplant of a heart from one human being to another. What they have been waiting for is the simultaneous arrival of two patients with compatible blood types-one doomed to die of some disease that has not involved his heart, and a second doomed to die of incurable, irreversible heart disease...