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According to her hospital roommate, Teresa is a tall, thin, outgoing blond and a heavy smoker who worried about her daughter. The newborn was transferred to the Loma Linda medical center, a Seventh-day Adventist institution with an excellent reputation in pediatric cardiology. Doctors there explained to Teresa that the baby would probably die within a few days and that she could either leave her at the hospital or take her home. Raedel tearfully told the Los Angeles Times that after a sleepless vigil, "watching her to make sure she was breathing," they took the child home...
...baby girl might have been just any infant. Lying in her crib with a pacifier close at hand, she gave a couple of gaping yawns. She delicately stretched her scrawny arms in weariness. And mostly she slept. But last week, as television viewers got their first glimpse of the newborn known only as Baby Fae, it was her visibly heaving chest that stole the show. There was no mistaking the pulsations of life and no forgetting that the power source was the freshly implanted heart of a young baboon...
...likely to destroy the body's ability to fight infection. Since its first use in the U.S. in 1979 it has revolutionized transplant surgery, raising the one-year survival rate of heart recipients from 65% in the 1970s to 80%. Bailey believed that by focusing on the treatment of newborns, whose immune systems are not yet fully developed, he could further reduce the risks of rejection. Says he: "A newborn is a gracious host...
...Bradford Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson and Richard Terrile of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have discovered that the star is encircled by a dim disc of gas and solid particles. The astronomers believe that those particles may be the signs of newborn planets and worlds in formation. The spectacular image is the first visual evidence of another solar system, raising the possibility that extraterrestrial life may some day be found. "The time will have to come when we realize that we're not the center of the universe," says Terrile. "The galaxy...
...third in line to the throne wasted no time in the hospital. A glowing Prince Charles and Diana took him home just a day after his arrival. Not to worry about an o'erhasty departure though. Just as it does for every other British newborn, the National Health Service will send a "health visitor" round to little Harry's new home this week to be sure Kensington Palace is a suitable environment for rearing a child...