Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salt Lake City's University of Utah Hospital recently, a 57-year-old man lay dying after heart surgery. In his wallet was a card that read: "Desiring that humanity may benefit, I hereby give for any lawful medical purpose any specific organs or parts of my body determined to be medically usable . . . upon my death...
...past, hospital authorities would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...
...speedy donation was made possible by Utah's passage of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, which gives any patient the right to bequeath his body or organs for medical purposes. Because of almost nationwide adoption of the act-and changing public attitudes toward transplants-surgeons long frustrated by a shortage of donor organs now foresee an increase in the supply...
...remaining states, Nebraska and Massachusetts, will take up the measure in their next sessions. Blair L. Sadler, an attorney with the National Institutes of Health and a principal promoter of the gift acts, reports many requests for donor cards, with wording similar to that used in Utah. He predicts many more organs will soon become available for transplants...
UNITED STATES. Now threatened with extinction, to join the Eastern elk and passenger pigeon, are the American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which has destroyed more native plants and animals in the 192 years since Captain Cook's arrival than has all the rest of America in the same period. Hawaii's endangered wildlife -partly ravaged by the introduction of outside predators like mongooses and rats-includes all the fresh-water...