Word: bone-marrow
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DIED. Houari Boumedienne, 53, President of Algeria since 1965; of a rare blood and bone-marrow disease known as Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, after lingering in a coma for 39 days; in Algiers (see WORLD...
...fact also irradiated. But in most cases the technique proved unreliable-in part because of uncertainties about how much X-ray dosage the body could withstand-and was thus abandoned. Rapaport believes, however, that his dog experiments now indicate that these problems could be solved, and that irradiation, plus bone-marrow reconstitution, may eventually offer a way of eliminating troublesome immunosuppressive drug therapy in human transplant recipients as well...
...Mitchell." A court awarded custody of Marty to Mitchell and ordered him to pay Martha $1,000 a week. But the disbarred Mitchell fell $36,000 behind. Only two weeks ago, a judge ordered him to pay up after Martha's attorney described her as desperately ill from bone-marrow cancer and "without funds and without friends." It was in such circumstances that the once flamboyant Martha died a few days later at 57. At her funeral in Pine Bluff, a floral offering bore the words "Martha was right," and of course she was. She had paid a high...
...them about treating patients with leukemia and other types of cancer who develop aplastic anemia because of their anticancer therapy. The strategy of Teddy's doctors was to give him transfusions of red blood cells and platelets to keep him alive, plus hormones and other drugs to stimulate bone-marrow activity (it is impractical to inject patients regularly with normal white cells both because white cells ordinarily live only a short time and because the patient quickly develops toxic reactions). Teddy, it was hoped, would be protected from infection by the superclean room until his bone marrow revived. Judging...
Teddy has done neither. Every sign of possible recovery has been quickly followed by a setback. To make matters worse, the chances of a successful bone-marrow transplant, a technique employed sometimes in aplastic anemia and occasionally in leukemia cases, faded when the likeliest donor, Teddy's sister Elizabeth, 9, turned out to have a distinctly different marrow type...