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Thesurgical team decided to delay the operation a day. The team wanted to give [Robert Dowling] time to rest, said his surgical partner, Dr. Laman A. Gray Jr. 'Also, no one was in the mood to take on a major task like an artificial heart implant under the circumstances,' Gray said. 'It was so depressing.' [Tom Christerson] 'is doing superbly,' said Gray, who implanted the AbioCor artificial heart with Dowling. 'He looksabsolutely wonderful,' is awake and normal neurologically, Gray said. So far, Gray said, Christerson's recovery is faster than Tools', largely because Christerson 'was not as sick as Tools' was before the implant

On Wednesday, Tom Christerson, a 70-year-old retired executive, was in a Louisville, Ky., hospital expecting to become the world's second recipient of a self-contained artificial heart. The surgical team decided to delay the operation a day. The team wanted to give [Robert Dowling] time to rest, said his surgical partner, Dr. Laman Gray Jr. Christerson 'is doing superbly,' said Gray, who implanted the AbioCor artificial heart with Dowling. 'He looks absolutely wonderful,' is awake and is normal neurologically, Gray said

Tom Christerson, 70, become the second recipient of a self-contained artificial heart at Jewish..

Nearly one million babies conceived in test tubes have been born since 1978 when the first was conceived through an in vitro fertilization technique developed by a British scientist, Dr. Robert G. Edwards. Yesterday, Dr. Edwards's success in making infertility treatable, made him one of five winners of this year's awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Infertility was virtually untreatable for men and women when Dr. Edwards of the University of Cambridge in England began his fertility research on mice in 1955. Today, through techniques spawned by Dr. Edwards's research, post-menopausal women and those with blocked fallopian tubes or nonfunctioning ovaries can become pregnant, and effective therapies exist for men. Dr. Edwards also found flaws in conventional wisdom about fertilization. By using slices of ovaries taken from women undergoing surgery, he found that eggs took 37 hours to mature, not 12 as then believed. And Dr. Edwards destroyed another myth -- that sperm needed to be exposed to secretions in the female reproductive tract before it was competent for fertilization -- by showing that freshly obtained sperm worked fine

The surgical team decided to delay the operation a day. The team wanted to give Dr. [Robert Dowling] time to rest, said his surgical partner, Dr. Laman A. Gray Jr. ''Also, no one was in the mood to take on a major task like an artificial heart implant under the circumstances,'' Dr. Gray said. ''It was so depressing.'' Mr. [Tom Christerson] ''is doing superbly,'' said Dr. Gray, who implanted the AbioCor artificial heart with Dr. Dowling. ''He looks absolutely wonderful,'' is awake and normal neurologically, and began drinking clear liquids on Saturday, Dr. Gray said. After a breathing tube was removed, Mr. Christerson talked with his doctors. So far, Dr. Gray said, Mr. Christerson's recovery is faster than Mr. Tools's, largely because Mr. Christerson ''was not as sick as Mr. Tools'' was before the implant

[Tom Christerson] 'is doing superbly,' said [Laman Gray Jr.], who implanted the AbioCor artificial heart with [Robert Dowling]. On Tuesday, an expert in mechanical heart devices from that institute, Dr. O.H. Frazier, was attending the same Washington meeting as Dowling. Frazier joined Dowling on his drive and observed the operation. Christerson is from Central City, Ky. His implant went quicker and more smoothly than the first one, which the same surgeons performed on Robert Tools on July 2. So far, Gray said, Christerson's recovery is faster than Tools', largely because Christerson 'was not as sick as Tools' was before the implant

On Saturday, [Robert Edwards]' success in making infertility treatable made him one of five winners of this year's awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. [Joseph Goldstein] said that the award had been 'long overdue,' but Edwards was first nominated for a Lasker award this year. The Lasker awards often are called America's Nobels because 63 Lasker recipients have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes in Sweden

Robert Tools was identified as the first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, an official at Jewish Hospital in Louisville said. Mr

Before speaking, Mr. Tools put a finger over a hole in his neck, an opening known as a tracheotomy that allowed him to be more comfortable when he had been attached to a mechanical ventilator. Dr. Laman A. Gray Jr., one of the surgeons, said that his team closed the tracheotomy today but that until it completely healed in a few days, Mr. Tools would have some difficulty in speaking and being understood by others. Mr. Tools repeated the point later after he walked with his doctors into Dr. Gray's office to speak in a news conference. Mr. Tools was dressed in a blue shirt, red tie and wearing sneakers, as he said: ''Jewish did not seek me out. I came to Jewish because I was dying. I was in the last few days of life and my cardiologist informed me about the trial here.'' Mr. Tools lost vast amounts of weight and muscle mass during the months he suffered from heart failure and had a poor appetite and could not digest food properly. In the weeks ahead, Dr. [Robert D. Dowling] said, Mr. Tools needs to regain 30 or so pounds and muscle mass. ''If I could fix one thing, it would be his nutritional status,'' Dr. Dowling said. ''He would be a month or two ahead.''

Breaking the secrecy over his identity as the first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, Robert Tools, 59, of Franklin, Ky., said from his hospital room that he felt fine but that living with the constant whirring and..