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Parts of a draft of Mr. [Ariel Sharon]'s Kadima Party platform were published Monday in the newspaper Maariv, which had obtained a copy. The draft says the party will pursue peace efforts with the Palestinians, acknowledging that such a move would ultimately require Israel to relinquish more land and result in the establishment of a Palestinian state. [Kadima] will work to define Israel's permanent borders if it wins the election, it says. ''The basic tenet of the peace process is two national states,'' the platform says. Kadima's goal will be to ''lay the foundations to shape the permanent borders of the state of Israel.'' Israeli officials say they have not made a final decision on whether Palestinians in East Jerusalem will be allowed to vote inside the city limits. Israel has permitted Palestinians there to vote in previous Palestinian elections, including the one that chose the president of the Palestinian Authority last January

The recipient of the transplant was a 38-year-old woman who was severely disfigured after being attacked by a dog, said the surgeon, Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyons. The operation was carried out in Amiens on Sunday. In a brief telephone interview, Dubernard said the two surgical teams grafted a nose, lips and chin from a donor who had been declared brain dead onto the woman's face

The woman who received the transplant Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face. The relatively short interval of about six months between the dog bite and the surgery also raised questions in the minds of some experts about what, if any, efforts had been made to perform reconstructive surgery before the transplant. 'The major question is: What were the indications' for the transplant, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who plans to perform a full face transplant. Photo: A FIRST: Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyon, France, collaborated on the first partial face transplant, performed Sunday in Amiens. Dubernard performed the first hand-forearm transplant in 1998

Kuschyk, whose main research field is sudden death, said his interest in roller coasters began when a journalist asked about the dangers of coasters to the heart. When Kuschyk searched databases, he found no studies in scientific journals. One potential danger is a coaster's magnetic brakes, which can interfere with the function of pacemakers and defibrillators, Kuschyk said. The study, conducted in Hassloch, Germany, involved 55 adults and Expedition GeForce, a 120-second ride that starts with a 62-meter, or 203-foot, ascent followed by a free fall. The coaster has changes in gravity of six G's in four seconds, and a maximum speed of 120 kilometers an hour, or 75 miles an hour. The author, Dr. Jurgen Kuschyk, a cardiologist at the University of Mannheim, found that one participant's heart rate reached 200 beats a minute, which could cause dangerous rhythm abnormalities

It also urged that adults ages 19 to 65 have the booster against whooping cough, also called pertussis, 10 years after their last shot against the disease. They could receive the vaccine at the same time as their booster against tetanus and diphtheria, because a newly licensed vaccine -- Adacel, made by Sanofi Pasteur -- offers protection against all three diseases. Using estimates made by the disease centers, the panel said routine hepatitis A immunization would prevent up to 180,000 infections and 30,000 illnesses each year among children and adults, advancing the goal of eliminating the disease in this country. Adverse reactions to the vaccine are reported as rare. In recommending hepatitis A shots for toddlers, the panel cited the success of a vaccination program in 17 states that had had a high incidence of the disease: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming

After Dr. Marshall and Dr. [J. Robin Warren] discovered the role of the spiral-shaped H. pylori bacterium, they and others conducted trials showing that antibiotics and drugs inhibiting the production of stomach acid could cure gastritis and most stomach and duodenal ulcers. Dr. [Barry J. Marshall] joined Dr. Warren in studying biopsies from a series of patients. After several attempts, Dr. Marshall succeeded in growing a bacterium that was unknown then; he named it Campylobacter pyloridis, believing that it was a member of the Campylobacter family. (It was later found to be a member of the Helicobacter family and renamed H. pylori.) In earlier interviews, Dr. Marshall described how at age 32, he swallowed a gastroscope tube to allow another doctor to look at his stomach and take several biopsies. These procedures and examinations were needed to document that Dr. Marshall had no H. pylori in his stomach and did not suffer from gastritis or another abnormality

Mr. [Cheney], 64, who has had four heart attacks, will remain overnight in the hospital after the procedure. Steve Schmidt, his spokesman, described the surgery as an elective procedure so it would ''not become a problem over time.'' The aneurysm is in the popliteal artery behind Mr. Cheney's right knee, his spokesman said. During a routine examination in July, the vice president's doctors ''identified small, dilated segments of the arteries behind both knees,'' according to a statement

An international health organization has reported that it has suspended more than $150 million in grants to Uganda because of serious mismanagement. Officials of the agency, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said Wednesday that they had taken the action to warn Uganda and other countries that they needed to manage the fund's grants properly. The fund had awarded Uganda $201 million in five grants and had already paid out $45.4 million of that. Two grants were made to help fight AIDS and two for malaria. The fifth grant was for tuberculosis control. Some started in 2003, and some this year. Payment will resume 'as soon as Uganda comes up with a proper plan to rectify the issues of mismanagement,' said Jon Liden, a spokesman for the fund. It has given Uganda until Oct. 24 to improve management of the grants