Word: bone-marrow
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...support" of Christy's fight for an injunction. At 3 o'clock that afternoon, wearing his new-medicine hat, he and two UCLA colleagues met with other oncologists and Health Net officials at the Hyatt Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport for another meeting of the company's bone-marrow committee...
...call struck Slamon as unusual. For one thing, he had never spoken to Ossorio before. For another, he was not Christy's doctor, a fact Ossorio must have known, given that Glaspy sat on Health Net's bone-marrow committee. Slamon said he knew nothing about Christy's case, but he offered to look into it. The following Friday, Slamon told Glaspy he had decided UCLA should pay for the treatment...
...SHOULD BE DEAD BY NOW. He has had HIV for about 15 years. His immune system is barely functioning. And on top of that, in a desperate attempt four weeks ago to reverse the course of his disease, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital infused him with an experimental bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. Immunologists warned that his body would eventually reject the nonhuman tissue and that the operation would almost certainly end his life rather than prolong it. However, Getty is not only alive, but last week he was healthy enough to go home from the hospital...
...baboon transplants, it's a wonder the FDA allowed Getty to undergo the operation at all. Certainly compassion for a dying man played a role. But according to scientists who are familiar with how such decisions are made, there was probably another, more subtle reason. "The chance of that bone-marrow transplant taking [hold] and working in a human is zero," says Ronald Desrosiers, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School. Current techniques, he believes, are simply not yet refined enough for it to work. But they could be soon...
Still, nothing could have prepared him for his latest, and possibly greatest, fight. It took more than a year and some intense lobbying for Getty to win the right to become the first AIDS patient to receive a baboon bone-marrow transplant. He overcame the last bureaucratic hurdle in August, when the Food and Drug Administration agreed to allow Getty, and Getty alone, to undergo the procedure. Then in the fall, he developed potentially fatal pneumocystis pneumonia, which postponed the transplant until December...