Page 8 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1979
Bionics ...
Dialysis now possible with portable kidney
United Press International
NEW YORK — TV’s Six Million Dollar Man is not so far away.
At the opening session of the 2nd Annual International Society for
Artificial Organs meeting Wednesday, Dr. Eli A. Freidman said tele
vision’s version of the bionic man “would probably cost $1 billion”
today.
“Making it,” he said, “would be easier than putting a man on the
moon.”
“The people who could make it are attending this meeting. There
are 1,000 biomedical engineers, physicians, and other researchers who
form the world’s resource in devising new forms of artificial organs '•—
the so-called science of bionics.”
But Freidman’s chief concern is an 18-pound artificial kidney in an
attache case he says will be available commercially before the year is
out, for less than $6,000.
Friedman, a professor at New York’s Downstate Medical Center,
said the state of the art is such that he could develop an implantable
artificial kidney in five years, at a probable cost of $500 million.
A small portable kidney would free some 100,000 people who must
depend on the kidney machine to cleanse blood of impurities.
The small kidney has been in limited use around the world since its
introduction for field tests 2V6 years ago. Approval from the Food and
Drug Administration’s Bureau of Medical Devices several months ago
signaled the go-ahead for mass production of the kidney.
“This little artificial kidney in a suitcase makes it possible to perform
dialysis in hotel rooms or on battlefields,” Friedman said.
In fact, conference participant Dr. S. Stiller from the University of
Aachen, West Germany, brought one of the portable kidneys to the
meeting and is undergoing dialysis in his hotel room right on schedule.
Friedman said manufacturing and marketing arrangements have
been made with American Hoechst Corp.
The artificial kidney goes back to 1943, when Dr. Willem J. Kolff, a
Dutch-born surgeon, developed the apparatus — working in near
secret conditions in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Kolff now heads
the Institute of Artificial Orgaky the University of Utah in Salt Lake
City.
Friedman claims the portable, lightweight kidney probably could
save the government hundreds of millions of dollars each year — if its
wide-scale availability shifted a significant portion of treatments to
homes for 44,000 Americans with kidney failure.
Persons who need dialysis must be linked to a machine for four to six
hours three times a week while their blood is cleansed.
Hospital dialysis costs the government $28,000 per patient per year
and dialysis in a dialysis center $15,000, while home dialysis costs only
$8,000.
The federal government will pay $1.2 billion for dialysis treatments
this year. Only 11 percent of those in the dialysis program opt for the
home treatments.
Beefless Wednesday
urged to cut prices
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A consumer
group thinks it has found a way to
force a cut in beef prices. It says
Americans should just do without
beef one day a week.
Cattle producers say it is not that
simple and the current high prices
are just part of the ups and downs of
their business.
“It’s time for consumers to use
some of their clout in the mar
ketplace,” said Ann Brown, con
sumer affairs chairman for the
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prices of as much as 15 percent.
The “beef-less Wednesday” cam
paign was begun recently in New
York City by the city’s consumer af
fairs commissioner. Brown said the
campaign will be taken to cities
throughout the country.
C.W. McMillan of the National
Cattlemen’s Association told the
consumers’ news conference that
consumers don’t have to be told what
to do.
“They are very capable of making
up their own mind on what they
should or should not buy,” he said.
“(Cattlemen) went through tre
mendous economic losses in the
years of 1974, ’75, ’76, ’77 and into
1978, and they’re now in the process
of building up herds,” McMillan
said. In the cattle cycle a build-up of
herds results in more cattle on the
market and lower prices.
“If beef prices should decline se
verely because of these efforts I think
it would have a negative reaction to
individual cattlemen and their ban
kers,” McMillan said. He added that
if consumers weren’t willing to let
producers make a living, few of them
would want to stay in the business.
Brown said beef has caused the
tremendous increase in food prices.
She said the “beef-less Wednesday”
campaign is not a boycott of beef.
“It’ s a cutback because a cutback
can have a good strong effect on the
market without having a total dislo
cation of the market.”
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F riday
AGGIE PLAYERS: “Equus” will be performed in the Rudder Forum
at 8 p.m.
RHA CASINO: Will be held on the second floor of the MSC from 7:30
p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The auction begins at 11 p.m. Tickets are on sale
in the MSC, Commons and Sbisa.
TAMU RACQUETBALL CLUB: Will hold a singles tournament at 6
p.m. in DeWare Field House.
STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: As its spring project the Student Y is
sponsoring a car wash at McDonald’s parking lot 2-6 p.m. All
proceeds from the car wash will go for maintenance of the All Faiths
Chapel. Price is $2.
HASSLE-FREE: Any student wishing to be a rep for the new off-
campus organization can sign up at the tables in the MSC. For more
information call 845-1741 or 693-1473.
PUBLICATION CELEBRATION: Texas A&M University Press and
The Association of Former Students are sponsoring a celebration of
the publication We Are The Aggies and to honor the author from
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Forsyth Alumni Center in the
MSC.
MUSLIM STUDENTS’ASSOCIATION: Amendments will be made
to the constitution and election of officers will be held at 7:30 p. m.
in Room 607, Rudder Tower.
HASSLE-FREE WEEK: There will be a faculty reception 2-4 p. m. in
the off-campus center.
BASEBALL TEAM: The men’s team will play Texas Tech in Lubbock.
GOLF TEAM:The men’s team will play at a Southwest Conference
tournament in Tyler today through Sunday.
GOLF TEAM: The women’s team will play at TAIAW in Commerce
today through Tuesday.
TENNIS TEAM: The men’s team will play Lamar here at 1:30 p.m.
MSC TRAVEL COMMITTEE: “We’ve Never Been Licked” will be
shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
AGGIE CINEMA: “Semi-Tough,” starring Kris Kristofferson and
Burt Reynolds as pro football players in a zany tale about man’s
favorite sport, will be shown at 10 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
MIDNIGHT MOVIE: “The Three Musketeers,” starring Oliver
Reed, Racquel Welch and Faye Dunaway, full of swordplay, ro
mance, satire and slapstick comedy, will be shown in Rudder
Theater.
Saturday
WILDLIFE SOCIETY BARBEQUE: The fund-raising wild game
barbeque begins at 2 p.m. at Tabor Community Center on Tabor
Rd. All Aggies are invited to eat bear, ostrich, deer, wild boar,
goose and duck. Tickets are $3.50.
OUTDOOR EDUCATION WORKSHOP: There will be a workshop
for students and teachers, entitled “The Outdoor Education Ex
perience.” Registration for the workshop begins at 8:30 a.m. in
Room 701, Rudder Tower. For further information call Jack
Mayluras at 845-6751.
FRIENDS OF THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: Will
meet in the historic Cavitt House in Wheelock. The meeting will
include lunch with a presentation by Jeff Dykes on his 40 years of
book collecting.
BASEBALL TEAM: The men’s team will play Texas Tech in Lubbock.
AGGIE CINEMA: “Semi-Tough,” starring Kris Kristofferson and
Burt Reynolds as pro football players in a zany tale about man’s
favorite sport, will be shown at 8 and 10:30 p. m. in Rudder Theater.
Sunday
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS: There
will be a spring picnic from 3-7 p. m. in Bee Creek Park. Tickets are
available in the industrial engineering office.
Monday
PRE-MED, PRE-DENT SOCIETY: Dr. Richard North will speak on
“Internal Medicine” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 206, MSC.
CAMAC: There will be concert by Little Joe, Johnny Rocky and La
Familia from 8-10 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
MSC ARTS COMMITTEE: “Going Places,” an outrageous road
which traces the unpredictable adventures of two young drifters
traveling through France, will be shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder
Theater. (R).
Chinese
trade
arrives
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SEATTLE — Thirty yeari|
trade relations between the
States and China have endedj
spontaneous party aboard !|J
Chinese ship to visit a U,S,|
since that nation’s revolution|
The freighter Liu Lin Haim
Wednesday and about
applauded as the ship’s l(ii|
disembarked. The Chineses
returned the applause.
The welcoming ceremony^
with the playing of nationalai
the shaking of hands,
dockside speeches in praiseo(i|
era in China-U.S. trade relal
The welcomers, include
governor, senators, a
member, and even a burlyd
ter who once ran gunstolltj
side in the Chinese
climbed aboard the white6
and squeezed inside the t
quarters for exotic refreshn
the ship’s co-captains.
Those attending included^
ington Sens. Warren!
Henry Jackson, Gov. Dixy hi
U.S. Transportation Secretaijlj
Adams, Chinese Vice Mini
Communications Peng]
Chinese Ambassador ChaiJ
various Chinese shipping!
and Seattle port officials.
The Liu Lin Han regular!
empty to Vancouver, B.C.,j
hours north, to pick up ail
grain for the Chinese. Thisi
was scheduled to depart will if
tons of American grain.
The Norwegian-built (rti|
was purchased by the Chinadl
Shipping Co. in 1977, andstj|
ries Norwegian signs,
extinguishers, and a h:
trade map of the world. Thea
Chinese officers opened the!
everyone who wanted to h
spite the advice of securityt
The welcoming party cuj
into the small lounge to wat
dignataries eat exoticfoodsa
decorated with messages like,]
a pleasure to have a ffienda
from afar.”
Co-captains Bei Bantasl
Zhang Jie urged all to try I
cake sandwiches, exotic ]
chicken dishes, cookies;
cake from Shanghai, Lucbl
grape wine, potent Mai Tail]
and sweet Tsingtao beer.
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