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The announcement of the scholarship set off the predictable tantrum so familiar in the abortion debate in this country. Anti-abortion leaders spoke of creating a counter-scholarship fund to educate young physicians about the evil of abortion. Some true zanies talked about creating a Joseph Mengele prize for physicians who perform abortions

The surgeons at Pittsburgh gave two reasons to justify their decision to try using an animal transplant, or xenograft. The recipient of the baboon liver, who continues to request anonymity, is infected with hepatitis B. This virus was responsible for the destruction of his liver

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Christopher Columbus is getting a lot of bad ink these days. Back when I was a kid, in Paleolithic times, Columbus was the brave explorer who discovered the New World in order to assure all American children a day off from school. I recently visited a museum exhibit on Columbus and other early European explorers held to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the voyage of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria across the big pond. The trip was described as an "encounter." Christopher Columbus, "encounterer."

When the baboon-liver transplant was being done, I was in Strasbourg, France, at an international conference of experts in xenografting. Some of the surgeons there said that they would accept into their programs patients dying from liver failure as a result of hepatitis. A few of the surgeons and scientists who were there expressed skepticism about whether or not a baboon liver was vulnerable to hepatitis infection, but many thought the odds were probably lower

Lots of parents are saying "yes" -- for the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known

Lots of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known

Lot's of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known

Lots of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known

Many parents are saying yes. For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known

Lots of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known