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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Artificial heart recipients making fast recoveries
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart has been doing well enough to make trips outside the hospital in a van, his doctors said yesterday.
"We are trying to make fairly routine trips into the city," said University of Louisville surgeon Dr. Laman Gray. "He absolutely loves doing that."
On Robert Tools' first trip outside the hospital last week, he went to Louisville's Waterfront Park, and then had a special request on the way back to the hospital.
"He wanted to stop by the White Castle for a cheeseburger," Gray said. He ate some of the burger but wasn't up to finishing it. Gray said.
Before Tools' history-making surgery July 2 at Jewish Hospital, he was so weak he could take only a few steps at a time and couldn't raise his head to talk to his doctors
Gray and Dr. Robert Dowling performed a second artificial heart implant Sept. 13, on Tom Christerson.
"His heart, like Mr. Tools", has functioned flawlessly. "Dowling said yesterday."
The titanium and plastic pump is made by Abiomed Inc., of Danvers, Mass. The AbioCor has no wires or tubes protruding from the chest. An internal battery and controller are implanted with the heart. An external battery powers the device by passing electricity across the skin.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved implanting the experimental device in five patients, all dying of heart failure and too sick to qualify for human heart transplants.
Gov. Paul Patton met with both patients yesterday. "I was probably more interested in seeing them than they were in me," he said.
Satellite radio system gives listeners endless choices
The Associated Press
DALLAS — The voice of the late Bob Marley ushered satellite radio on the air yesterday, promising listeners greater variety on the dial — for a price.
Hugh Panero, president of XM Satellite Radio, flipped a switch in the company's Washington headquarters shortly after 12:30 p.m. EDT and began offering service in San Diego and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The company plans to expand nationwide in the coming months, and a competitor, New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio plans to come on line later this year.
XM Satellite Radio is offering 100 channels of varied music and talk, with limited advertising on some and no commercials on more than 30 channels. The company has 1.5 million pieces of music in a digital library to aim at markets ranging from opera to Latin romance. Service costs $9.99 a month.
Besides the reggae channel, called The Joint, XM offers a hard rock station called Bone Yard and 24 hours of disco on Chrome. Teens can discuss their problems on Babble On, while adults can tune into comedy, sports or news from a dozen sources, including The Associated Press.
The satellite companies have the ambitious goal of signing up more than 4 million subscribers each in the next four years to break even. Sirius will charge $12.95 monthly and offer more commercial-free programming.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Vijay Jayant said success depends on how committed automakers are to installing the satellite-receiving radios in their vehicles.
For autos, a new satellite stereo system costs about $400, said Stephen Cook, senior vice president of sales and marketing. But most stores that sell radios also sell satellite receivers that work with any existing car stereo.
Cancer patients gain new hope for fertility
The Associated Press
CHICAGO—Sections of ovaries taken from two patients were implanted in their arms and continued to function there, raising hopes women can avoid the loss of fertility that often accompanies treatments for cancer and other diseases.
In both cases, the tissue produced clearly visible welt-sized bumps — mini ovaries, really — on the forearm, just below the elbow. But more important, the tissue appears to be functioning normally and has produced mature eggs and regulates the menstrual cycle. That offers hope that the women, both in their 30s, could become pregnant.
"It's very promising," said Dr. Kutluk Oktay, a Cornell University reproductive endocrinologist who performed the transplants at New York Methodist Hospital.
Oktay and colleagues describe the procedure in a report in today's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Oktay said the procedure could potentially benefit the estimated 40,000 to 50,000 U.S. women diagnosed annually with cancer during reproductive years, who may require chemotherapy or radiation that can damage the ovaries. The tissue could be removed before treatment begins, then implanted in the arm after chemotherapy has finished and kept out of the way of radiation.
Thousands of others who take sterility-inducing drugs for ailments such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis also could potentially benefit. Oktay said.
If pregnancy were attempted, it would be through in-vitro fertilization, and eggs would be retrieved in a simple procedure through a syringe, similar to drawing blood, he said.
Other attempts at preserving fertility include freezing patients' unfertilized eggs, but only a few such cases have resulted in successful pregnancies. Whether tissue implants will prove more successful is unknown, said Dr. William Keye, director of reproductive endocrinology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.
Still, Keye called the research "a pretty unique and exciting new development."
Students programming For students
Upcoming Events
Kansas Union Gallery 8:30-4:30 Iconography Exhibit, Kansas Union Level 4
Fall Film Series
9/26-10/8
September 27 & 28
Crazy/Beautiful 9:00 p.m. A working class latino teenager (Jay Hernandez) and a rich girl (Kirsten Dunst) with a wealth of emotional problems fall in love in this teen drama.Their family and friends don't approve of the relationship because it crosses class and cultural borders.
Live Music
Tunes at Noon
on the Kansas Union Plaza
September 28
Spectrum Films Movie in the Woods September 29 Children of the Corn 9:00 p.m. Potters Lake A young couple wander into a mid-western town where all the adults are apparently dead and the children participate in a cult that worships a malevolent force in the corn fields. Based on a Stephen King novel.
SUA Committee Night October 2
Join an SUA Committee Committee times vary according to committee, located in The Kansas Union. Specific times available in the SUA Box Office
Bandits Free Sneak Preview 8:00 p.m. October 2
A couple of escaped convicts go on a bank-robbing spree; staring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett.
All shows in Woodruff Auditorium, 5th floor Kansas Union. Vouchers available in the SUA Box Office on the day of the show starting at 8:30 a.m. Vouchers do not guarantee seating
Brown Bag Classics 12:30-1:30 Faculty Oboist Margaret Marco Alderson Auditorium Kansas
Thursday Afternoon Tea Kansas Union Lobby For more information about these or other upcoming events, please contact the SUA Office.
October 3
Thursdays 3:00-5:00
student union activities
The University of Kansas
Levet 4, Kansas Union
785.B44.SHOW
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