Today's Globe: Kennedy surgery, health insurance gains, brain-injured patients, Richard Lower
US Senator Edward M. Kennedy (left, in file photo), moving with extraordinary quickness to pursue the most aggressive form of treatment for his malignant brain tumor, flew by private jet to North Carolina and underwent brain surgery yesterday that his hand-picked neurosurgeon declared a success.
The number of uninsured adults in Massachusetts fell by almost half last year, says a study released today, while the state's Revenue Department reports that 86,000 people paid a state tax penalty rather than buy insurance.
The state will help brain-injured patients move out of nursing homes and into communities, under a proposed settlement to a lawsuit (second item).
Dr. Richard R. Lower, whose daring heart surgeries on animals in the 1950s helped pave the way for the first successful transplant of a human heart in 1967, died May 17 in Twin Bridges, Mont. He was 78.
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Dule and Beth Israel Doctors claim that resection slows the growth of a malignant glioma. MGH doctors elected not to do the surgery, because they claim --apparently--that it doesn't. What do the data show?