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Heart Transplant Advances Stir Ethical and Medical Debate
The piece notes five human heart transplants across Cape Town Palo Alto and New York within six weeks, including a death at Maimonides Medical Center. It highlights Dr Norman E Shumway of Stanford and Dr Adrian Kantrowitz of Maimonides as leading figures, and discusses immunology drugs and the broadening transplant field from kidney to heart, with cautious optimism about crossing the medical frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold M. Schmeck JR
New York Times News Service
Palo Alto
Calif
Cape Town
South Africa
United States
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn
Norman E. Shumway
Stanford University
Adrian
Kantrowitz
Maimonides Hospital
New York
Shumway
Christian N. Barnard
Man