Word: bone-marrow
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Through a program devised by its store owners, the company has helped establish 153 Ronald McDonald Houses, named for the chain's trademark clown, where families of seriously ill children can stay while the child is undergoing extensive medical treatment, such as chemotherapy or bone-marrow transplants. Each house serves an average of 15 families who pay from $5 to $15 a night, if they can afford it. The local projects are supported by local fund drives, and all the money collected goes directly to the houses; McDonald's pays all administrative costs of the program, which extends to Canada...
...source of hope. Doctors have known for years that thalidomide is among the most effective treatments for leprosy. And last week a research team from Johns Hopkins reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that the drug can also improve the survival rate of patients who get bone-marrow transplants, which are used to treat potentially fatal disorders including aplastic anemia and some blood cancers...
...that Paul Tsongas will suffer a relapse or a secondary cancer are difficult to gauge. After conventional treatments failed to eradicate his disease, he underwent a more radical procedure that is too new for doctors to have data on long-term survival rates. The procedure, known as an autologous bone-marrow transplant, was designed to overcome the basic limitation faced by all conventional cancer therapies: in doses sufficient to do their job, they can destroy the bone marrow, the mother lode of all blood cells, red and white. By removing a portion of the bone marrow (and purging it separately...
...Currys didn't waste time searching for bone-marrow donors outside the family. Instead, Lea Ann got pregnant. When that fetus miscarried, Lea Ann waited a month, then got pregnant again. The couple gained a healthy baby, Audrey, but she was an unsuitable donor. Within 12 weeks, Lea Ann was again pregnant, this time with Emily, whose tissue proved compatible. So doctors collected and stored the blood from Emily's umbilical cord -- blood rich in stem cells. Twenty months after Emily's birth, the cord blood was transplanted into her sister, then...
...deformed children, the doomed drug was abruptly withdrawn. Now it is making a quiet comeback. Andrulis Pharmaceuticals of Beltsville, Md., and Pediatric Pharmaceuticals of Westfield, N.J., have asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve thalidomide for experimental use. Andrulis wants it for a clinical study of patients with bone-marrow transplants. By suppressing the immune response, thalidomide may prevent the new marrow from attacking the body. Pediatric plans to provide the drug to investigators of lupus and AIDS-related mouth ulcers, which thalidomide could curtail. These small firms may have the field to themselves -- giant drugmakers are still unlikely...