Word: bone-marrow
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...years after the initial thalidomide disaster, researchers discovered that the drug has an almost miraculous ability to treat complications of leprosy. Then they learned they could use it against some of the potentially fatal side effects of bone-marrow surgery. The past year has brought reports that the drug may help fight tuberculosis, a common cause of blindness called macular degeneration and even AIDS...
...that last week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...
...California jury has determined that Health Net, the state's second largest HMO, must pay $89.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the family of a now deceased cancer patient denied coverage for a bone-marrow transplant, a procedure that the HMO considers experimental. The company will appeal...
...years ago, a California couple made a remarkable decision when faced with the news that their daughter was dying of leukemia. The father braved a vasectomy reversal and the mother a pregnancy at 43 to have a new child born for the express purpose of providing the bone-marrow transplant that saved the older child's life...
...Bone-marrow transplants for advanced breast-cancer patients allow some women + whose cancers have spread into 10 or more lymph nodes to undergo more intensive radiation therapy. The 1,200 instances in which the technique has been tried so far suggest that it may add several years to a patient's life -- at a cost of more than $100,000 a year. However, refinements may soon drastically reduce that to a far more cost-effective $17,000. Letha Mills, director of the bone-marrow transplant program at New Hampshire's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is worried about the chilling effect...