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...patients, the best you can expect of the experimental drugs is to keep tumors from spreading. So researchers have begun to evaluate them in conjunction with traditional chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. So far, the results are promising. Preliminary trials involving patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer and kidney cancer suggest that the combination of angiogenesis inhibitors with standard therapy improves survival rates beyond those of either treatment alone...
...very busy calendar. In the run-up to Labor Day, the communist authorities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong's border wonderland of sin and shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage to other organs. It's a booming business: many...
...Where there's a buck to made, someone in Shenzhen will make it. Wiwijaya, an Indonesian-born ethnic Chinese, tells the harrowing story of his brother, who was suffering from renal failure. He ordered a replacement kidney for $25,000 and, as a 26-year-old, made the journey to southern China from Medan in 1996. The transplant was successful, but when he returned for an internal checkup last August something went terribly wrong. His stomach swelled up, his new kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says...
DIED. WILLIE (POPS) STARGELL, 61, Pittsburgh Pirate captain who led the team to a surprise World Series win over Baltimore in 1979; of a stroke following years of heart disease and kidney trouble; in Wilmington, N.C. One of the few major leaguers to stick with a single ball club for at least 20 years, Stargell hit 475 home runs, a Pittsburgh record, and had more homers than anyone else...
...Roberto Clemente died before I was born; I don't have much experience dealing with the passing of hometown legends. So when I learned that Stargell had died Monday morning after a long battle with kidney disease, I was at something of a loss. Am I fit to accurately remember a man who played his greatest seasons when I was in grade school...