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[Myrna] likes to read, to argue about politics, to receive visits from her many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and to watch her favorite soap operas on TV. But she has a hard time doing any of these things because her roommate in the nursing home is demented. Myrna's roommate has Alzheimer's disease

The Jarvik heart brought international fame to its inventor, Robert Jarvik; to William DeVries, the surgeon who first placed it into a human being; and to such patients as Barney Clark, Jack Burcham and Murray Haydon, who received it as a permanent replacement for their own failing hearts. The device also put the Humana Corp. on the map when its president lured DeVries to the hospital chain's flagship hospital in Louisville, Ky., with the promise that the for-profit corporation would pay for 100 implants

Arthur Caplan comments that although nonsmokers should not have to endure the byproducts of other people's vice, it does not seem fair to tell those who have smoked for 40 years or more, or those whose only pleasure while residing in an institution is a smoke, to go stand in the cold

William E. Seidelman and Arthur L. Caplan say that it is important for East and West Germany to pay homage to the people slain in Nazi concentration camps in World War II

The prospect of a free, democratic and reunified Germany represents a triumphant moment for those who treasure democracy. A reunified Germany also brings to mind painful, tragic memories of a unified Germany that was totalitarian, fascist and racist-a nation responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. Optimism about Germany's future depends in large measure on Germany's willingness to fully acknowledge its tragic past. The West German government is now facing a stern test of its willingness to confront the nightmares of the past to reassure the world about its dreams for the future

THE prospect of a free, democratic and reunified Germany represents a triumphant moment for those who treasure democracy. A reunified Germany also brings to mind painful, tragic memories of a unified Germany that was totalitarian, fascist and racist - a nation responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. Optimism about Germany's future depends in large measure on Germany's willingness to fully acknowledge its tragic past. The West German government is now facing a stern test of its willingness to confront the nightmares of the past to reassure the world about its dreams for the future

The prospect of a free, democratic and reunified Germany represents a triumphant moment for those who treasure democracy. A reunified Germany also brings to mind painful, tragic memories of a unified Germany that was totalitarian, fascist and racist - a nation responsible for the deaths of tens of millions

MINNEAPOLIS - Sometime on June 4, Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist and self-promoting, self-styled free-thinker, drove a 54-year-old Portland, Ore., woman, Janet Adkins, in his old VW van out to a trailer park on the outskirts of Detroit. He says he attached her arm to his homemade euthanasia machine and monitored her heartbeat while she used it to kill herself. Kevorkian says he hopes Janet Adkins's death will force the issue of euthanasia into the public spotlight. Incredibly, it is doing that

Sometime June 4, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist and self-promoting, self-styled free-thinker, drove a 54-year-old Portland, Ore., woman, Janet Adkins, in his old VW van out to a trailer park on the outskirts of Detroit. He says he attached her arm to his homemade euthanasia machine and monitored her heartbeat while she used it to kill herself. Kevorkian says he hopes Janet Adkins' death will force the issue of euthanasia into the public spotlight. Incredibly, it is doing that

Ordering those who fund science to fix gender discrimination by quota or by fiat won't work. Unless the biomedical community begins to take seriously the idea that women are just as normal as men, researchers will continue to be wary of using them as research subjects. And unless society debates and reaches consensus on ethical, legal and social policies that ought to govern involvement of pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in research, researchers will continue to steer away from these women