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...umbilical cord between international law and its mother, idealism, has never been severed," he said...
...blood and process the material to concentrate the stem cells. Theoretically, stem cells can rebuild the body's bloodmaking machinery so that it produces the full array of effective blood cells the body needs to defend itself against germs, close wounds and transport oxygen. Scientists speculate that cord stem cells are more adaptable and will transplant more successfully, even in patients with imperfect biological matches, than stem cells harvested from adult bone-marrow donors...
When doctors are confident the sick cells have been destroyed, the cord cells are dripped into the children's arms. The lucky ones wait up to 100 days for their stem cells to start functioning. The cost to save a child's life...
...like to treat everybody," says Joanne Kurtzberg, the cord-blood-program director. "But Duke is not going to let me practice here if all I do is lose money...
...find the money to save these young lives, Kurtzberg is always searching for ways to cut treatment costs. She and her staff spend long hours on the phone each day trying to wring money out of insurance companies. But the bottom line for the cord program is not healthy, which means constant battles with Duke's bureaucracy as well. "I'm not fighting for me to take a vacation to China," says Kurtzberg, who puts in 100-hour workweeks. "I'm fighting for the patient. But this administration has gotten much more business oriented...