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...those heroes is Dr. Thomas Starzl, the doctor who, in the same year Barnard replaced Washkansky's heart, performed the first successful liver transplant in Denver. It was Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh's Transplantation Institute that made liver transplants routine and fine-tuned the intricate balance of immunosuppression drugs to fight the rejection of transplanted organs by the body's immune system. Now, as he approaches retirement after three decades of spectacular achievement, Starzl has reached the conclusion that he and his colleagues had, for all those years, been going about organ transplantation the wrong...
...insulin to digest sugars or does not use the insulin efficiently. New classes of drugs may make keeping track of sugar levels easier. Some of these work in the small intestine to inhibit the absorption of carbohydrates (which raise blood-sugar levels) after a meal, while others stop the liver from producing excess amounts of sugar. This summer a new type of insulin, Humalog, reputedly capable of acting more than twice as fast as other versions, hit the market...
...wants a piece of liver?" asks Jay Cook, holding up a dark purple slab. "Long time ago, our ancestors ate this raw. It will make you strong...
...probation for his May 28 conviction on Whitewater fraud and conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. said prison "would be as cruel as the grave" for the ailing defendant. Tucker faced 10 years in prison but had appealed for leniency, citing his public humiliation and a chronic liver condition. Tucker was the first of the three Whitewater defendants to be sentenced. Susan McDougal will be sentenced Tuesday, but after cooperating with federal prosecutors James McDougal's sentencing has been postponed until November 18. In a potentially troubling development for President Clinton's reelection bid, lawyers have reported that...
...Arizona music lovers. They bought a lock of hair at an auction in 1994, and have offered it for scientific analysis. So far, researchers have learned that the composer didn't have lice and didn't take morphine for his kidney stones or his cirrhosis of the liver. They're still looking for traces of mercury and lead, either of which could have caused his famous deafness; the former would be an especially juicy find, since mercury in those days was used to treat syphilis, which some scholars think Beethoven may have had. They'd also like to know...