Word: boning
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...take blood from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
...procedure appears to solve a medical Catch-22. Although the transplantation of bone-marrow cells can restore the immune system of a child suffering from leukemia, hundreds of children in the U.S. die each year for lack of a suitable donor--this despite the fact that more than 2 million Americans have volunteered. The problem is that bone-marrow transplants require a far more precise match of tissue types--measured by six different genetic identity markers--than, say, heart or kidney transplants...
...help build an anchor industry. Yet in response to polls indicating support for gambling, the Governor has suggested that the initiative is the solution to the city's problems. While such political maneuvering has won him some support in the city, others see it for what it is: a bone thrown to a dog with the hope that it will shut...
...Confirming suspicions, a study finds that surgery to ENLARGE THE PENIS may be too risky. It involves snipping the ligament holding the penis against the pubic bone and sometimes injecting fat cells. A possible result: poor erections and scarring that pulls the penis back, making it look shorter...
DENGUE FEVER. The coastal mountain ranges of Costa Rica had long confined dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease accompanied by incapacitating bone pain, to the country's Pacific shore. But in 1995 rising temperatures allowed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to breach the coastal barrier and invade the rest of the country. Dengue also advanced elsewhere in Latin America, reaching as far north as the Texas border. By September the epidemic had killed 4,000 of the 140,000 people infected...