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Only this time, something went wrong. Penningroth stepped on the base of the hurdle, twisted her ankle and broke a hard-to-reach, hard-to-heal bone in her foot...
...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...
...GAME OF SUPER MARIO The Pittsburgh Penguins' slogan for this season is "The Three Most Feared Words in Hockey--Mario Is Back." The three most inspiring too. After a hiatus of 18 months because of treatment for Hodgkin's disease, two back operations and a bone infection, Lemieux is headed for his fifth scoring title...