Word: urologist
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...surgical team headed by Urologist John Hartwell Harrison removed Ronald's healthy left kidney. They kept both Richard's diseased kidneys in place, and gave him Ronald's as a third, placing it below his own right kidney. After 4 hours of complex surgery, involving superfine stitching of delicate blood vessels, the doctors saw the transplanted kidney begin to function. They closed the wound (another hour), and soon the kidney excreted a pint of urine. At week's end both Richard and Ronald were doing well...
Some family doctors do the operation in their own offices, other general practitioners send the patient to a urologist or general surgeon. With a local anesthetic, it takes about 20 minutes (and costs from $25 to $100). It does not change the man's sexual functioning in any way, except that the normally sperm-carrying fluid is free of sperm. Because the legal status of such operations is clouded in grave doubt, the doctor usually demands a statement, signed by both husband and wife, that they know what they are doing...
...Kind of H-Bomb. Of the many new experimental treatments for cancer described at the congress, the most promising was a "desexed" hormone used by Urologist Charles B. Huggins of the University of Chicago. He reported that he had stripped the hydrogen atom from the sex-hormone molecule, thus ridding it of the power to masculinize or feminize, then administered it to women with advanced breast cancer. The sexless hormones, Huggins hopes, can block the normal female hormones that stimulate breast cancer...
Whacked Children. The angularity of mind and body was hers by inheritance. She was born 42 years ago in Hartford, Conn., the second of the six children of Katharine Houghton and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a noted urologist and surgeon. Her father, a transplanted Virginian, was so moved by Brieux's crusading play about syphilis, Damaged Goods (and by the preface written to it by Bernard Shaw), that he risked ostracism by his campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate...
...annual meeting, were impatient to hear about the transplant progress. They could not hear from Surgeon Richard H. Lawler, who performs the operation, because he was in Europe and anyway they wanted the views of one of their own members. Dr. Patrick H. McNulty had been consulting urologist on the case, and he was persuaded to report