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Pathology tests showed weeks ago that the liver cancer from which Mickey Mantle died Sunday was an aggressive type. But the extraordinary speed with which the cancer riddled his body despite chemotherapy was surprising, particularly to his doctors at Baylor Transplant Institute in Dallas where the former New York Yankee basbeall star received a liver transplant June 8. Initially, the doctors and the Mantle family were encouraged by the technical success of the surgery. Mantle began taking chemotherapy for the cancer, a tumor that started in the liver and is known as a hepatoma. But pathology tests of the diseased liver that was removed in the transplant showed the cancer had already spread to his bile ducts. Such spread does not necessarily predict the virulence with which the cancer attacked Mantle

The heart surgery that former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins is scheduled to undergo on Aug 10, 1995 has become one of the most common operations performed in the US since it was developed about 30 years earlier. Dinkins is suffering from coronary artery disease, a condition that occurs when the arteries become narrowed or blocked, and will have bypasses on three coronary arteries. The risk of death is generally under 3% for such operations

For months, a 48-year-old regular at a neighborhood bar in Minneapolis had a cough that worsened. He breathed more than twice as fast as usual, felt feverish, became progressively weaker, lost 65 pounds. As the man became sicker, he spent more time at the bar, slept under a bridge, in shelters and occasionally in a rooming house near the bar. But he did not go to a doctor and no one sent him to a public clinic six blocks from the bar. Finally, he went to a nearby hospital, where doctors diagnosed tuberculosis. And when epidemiologists ended an investigation, they found that the man had infected at least 45 bartenders and other regular customers of the bar. At least one died despite therapy. In turn, infected bar companions spread the infection to two others, including a 7-month-old child

As the man became sicker, he spent more time at the bar, slept under a bridge, in shelters and occasionally in a rooming house near the bar. He did not go to a doctor, and no one sent him to a public clinic six blocks from the bar. Finally, he went to a nearby hospital, where doctors diagnosed tuberculosis. When epidemiologists ended an investigation, they found that the man had infected at least 45 bartenders and other regular customers of the bar. At least one died despite therapy. In turn, infected bar companions spread the infection to two others, including a 7-month-old child

Epidemiologists found that a 48-year-old regular at a neighborhood bar in Minneapolis had infected at least 45 bartenders and other regular customers of the bar with TB. In turn, infected bar companions spread the infection to two others, including a seven-month-old child. The case is discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine on Jul 27, 1995

Although Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has a number of physical handicaps and medical conditions, they are 'stable or controlled' and his health is 'excellent,' his doctors said on Jul 21, 1995. Based on checkups that Dole underwent in June and earlier in July, the medical records indicate that he is remarkably fit for a man of his age

A few hours after the chief neurosurgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City operated on the wrong side of a patient's brain on May 26, hospital officials knew he had made a horrendous error. The doctor had operated on the healthy part of the brain after looking at another patient's X-rays. Two weeks later, on June 10, after an initial inquiry, the cancer center suspended the doctor, Ehud Arbit, from his surgical and administrative duties. On June 21, and only in response to a reporter's inquiries, the hospital publicly acknowledged the error. Critics say that the main hospital accrediting agency, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is an unaggressive watchdog that announces most of its visits in advance and rarely bites anyone hard enough to leave a mark

A large number of preventable errors occur in US hospitals, and the mechanisms for quality control are not firmly enforced. Critics say that the main hospital accrediting agency, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, is an unaggressive watchdog. Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, says there is a 'pervasive lack of accountability in medicine.'

A few hours after the chief neurosurgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City operated on the wrong side of a patient's brain May 26, hospital officials knew he had made a horrendous error. Two weeks later, on June 10, after an initial inquiry, the cancer center suspended the doctor, Ehud Arbit, from his surgical and administrative duties. On June 21, and only in response to a reporter's inquiries, the hospital publicly acknowledged the error. Critics say that the main hospital accrediting agency, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is an unaggressive watchdog that announces most of its visits in advance and rarely bites anyone hard enough to leave a mark

Treating HIV before it causes symptoms might delay its progression to AIDS but doesn't prolong a patient's survival, a new study says. The study Saturday in the Brit ish Medical Journal supports findings from a 1993 study in Europe that also called into question a standard practice of prescribing the drug AZT for people infected with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. The authors of the new British study said they hoped it will raise more discussion about the relative merits of treating HIV early or after symptoms develop and stimulate scientists to focus more studies on the quality of life among those treated for HIV