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The process is surprisingly simple. After arriving in Bangkok, the patient has about 250 cc of blood drawn?less than a standard blood donation. This is sent to the company's laboratory in Israel, where stem cells that occur naturally in the blood are isolated and multiplied through a patented...
It's easy to understand why Trish and Andy Olson initially considered suing. But more than money, what the suburban St. Paul, Minn., couple wanted from the hospital was a genuine apology. Their son Owen, 7, born with spina bifida and a range of other birth defects, had already endured...
He lies naked on an open diaper, his toy legs sometimes kicking and his left hand resting on an ECG sensor just above his hiccuping diaphragm. A cloth shield protects his eyes. His diet, called "hyperalimentation," runs through an intravenous catheter to his umbilical artery. A nurse, who cares for...
RECOVERING. TONY BLAIR, 51, British Prime Minister; from a procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat; in London. Blair, who first disclosed his heart problem last year, underwent a successful catheter ablation to restore normal heart rhythm. In announcing his treatment, he also vowed to seek a third term.
As heart procedures go, a "catheter ablation" is good news: using local anesthetic, a tiny probe is threaded through the arteries to the interior of the heart, where it zaps a few cells that have occasionally been making the heart beat too fast. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had one...