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...agitated Washington's already mixed feelings about assisting the citizens of an unfriendly government. "We don't like the regime," says a senior State Department official. "It's an abomination. But we must deal with the emergency." Not long ago, indeed, the U.S., which has been the most generous donor of famine assistance (more than $300 million since last October), lifted restrictions on development aid to Ethiopia...
...drawbacks of the artificial heart have led many doctors to conclude that the device should be used only as a temporary measure to sustain a patient until a human donor heart can be found. "I'm not sure that it should be considered a permanent transplant," says famed Houston Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey...
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...Creighton's time on the heart-lung machine ticked on with no donor heart in sight, Copeland got permission from the patient's family to try an artificial heart. He called Heart Surgeon Cecil Vaughn of St. Luke's Hospital in Phoenix, who for two years has been experimenting with the "Phoenix heart," the invention of Kevin Cheng, a dental surgeon. Vaughn was stunned; the heart was years away from FDA approval and had been tested only twice in animals. "It was like a bomb falling from the sky," he recalls. Still he agreed to helicopter to Tucson immediately with...
There is no coat of arms on the flask, but somewhere in one of Britain's hospitals a convalescent patient has some of the world's most exclusive blood flowing through his or her veins. The regal donor of the precious stuff was Prince Charles, 36, who has become the first member of the royal family ever to give blood, in his case, O Rh-negative. The unprecedented puncturing of royalty was to reassure Britons after a nationwide scare about AIDS caused a drop in donations. At the North London Transfusion Center, the Prince was asked whether he was homosexual...