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Controversy continues to swirl about the implant. Los Angeles Internist David Olch, a member of the American Medical Association's judicial council, which proposed guidelines for the replacement of failing organs, issued a scathing criticism of the Humana hospital chain in last week's American Medical News. Asked...
DIED. John Rock, 94, flinty, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist who played the key role in developing, testing and popularizing the birth control pill, which helped spark a revolution in sexual mores, population control and the status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who...
In what some doctors might call the "good old days," almost all medical breakthroughs emanated from the major university teaching hospitals, especially Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. But as suddenly as heart transplant recipients Barney Clark, William Schroeder and Baby Fae made nationwide headlines, the traditional medical colleges were shoved...
DEAN OF the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 has publicly voiced his displeasure with the recent artificial heart transplant in Louisville, Ky. Fineberg called the operation a waste of money and criticized the hospital for not maintaining a broader perspective on public health. And numerous doctors at...
AT LEAST the operations at the Humana and Loma Linda Hospitals promised some widespread application in the future, compensating for their violations of the sacred medical code of ethics. The number of organs available from organ banks in this country will never match the number of needed transplants, and experimentation...