Word: bone-marrow
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DIED. HENRY HAMPTON, 58, Emmy-winning documentary producer; from a bone-marrow ailment brought on by lung cancer; in Boston. Hampton produced 60 films, many chronicling the lives of the poor, but he was best known for the 1987 civil rights opus Eyes on the Prize. Of the series, which won a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism, he said, "A hundred civil rights stories had been told, but it was always black people being saved by whites. In Eyes, we brought our people up in history...
Leukemia and other cancer patients who need bone-marrow transplants may now have a larger pool of potential donors. Israeli and Italian doctors say they have vastly improved the odds of a successful transplant between family members whose tissue types don't match perfectly. It's done by transplanting large numbers of stem cells--the bone-marrow cells that make blood. In Japan, doctors report that sophisticated DNA analysis is enabling them to better match donors and recipients who are not related...
...anywhere from $80,000, if the procedure went smoothly, to perhaps $1 million, if complications arose. The precipitating error apparently took place in the back offices of MUSC in Charleston, where someone misidentified Duke as a PHP contractor. One possibility is that PHP's contract with Duke to do bone-marrow transplants was misconstrued as a liver contract. Another is that Physician's Health Plan was confused with another provider that is also sometimes referred to as PHP: Partners National Health Plan, a North Carolina insurer that does have a liver-transplant contract with Duke. "It's an alphabet soup...
...produces the full array of effective blood cells the body needs to defend itself against germs, close wounds and transport oxygen. Scientists speculate that cord stem cells are more adaptable and will transplant more successfully, even in patients with imperfect biological matches, than stem cells harvested from adult bone-marrow donors...
...year-old son Matthew developed a rare and aggressive cancer, doctors gave him a 20% chance to live and started an 11-month course of chemotherapy. Cerniglia's HMO paid the bills at first. But when things took a turn for the worse and doctors ordered a bone-marrow transplant, the health plan refused to cover it. The new treatment, the administrators said, wasn't a "medical necessity," nor was it on their list of covered therapies. Despite a letter from an expert at the National Institutes of Health testifying that this was Matthew's best chance at life...