Word: dr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only a few thousand PGDs have been performed worldwide since Dr. Alan Handyside developed the procedure at London's Hammersmith Hospital in 1989. The majority of candidates for PGD are infertile couples or older women who suffer repeated miscarriages, a condition often due to chromosomal errors easily identified in the embryo stage. But for most couples the cost is prohibitive; a screen for a single disease costs $20,000. Says Santiago Munne of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.: "The limit is not that the population doesn't want it; it's that they cannot...
...performed. Still, they raise critical questions for any woman who tests positive. Should she undertake a pre-emptive strike against possible cancer with radical measures like mastectomy and chemotherapy? And if so, will insurers pick up the tab? In the absence of any firm reimbursement policies, says Dr. Ellen Clayton, a pediatrician and lawyer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., "I think you'd have to be nuts to let anybody know [about these genes...
...testing becomes more sophisticated, coverage based on genetic risks may become untenable, since everyone is likely to be at risk for one disease or another. Until then, says Dr. Paul Billings, a geneticist and medical officer with the Veterans Health Administration, medical insurance must be readily available to all. "I would hope," he says, "that by the end of the century, parceling out a social benefit like insurance based on genetics will be seen as just not appropriate...
...Fragile X syndrome, most patients treated at Genetics & IVF want to even out their families--a life-style rather than a medical decision. The Fairfax clinic has been willing to help, but such a trend doesn't sit well with some other practitioners. "Our view at the moment," says Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell Medical Center in New York City, "is that these techniques should be used for medical indications, not family balancing...
Stokes chose to survive. He volunteered to take part in a novel clinical trial about to be conducted on heart patients by Dr. Jeffrey Isner at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston. To his surprise, he was accepted. Last May he flew to Boston, where a solution containing billions of copies of a gene that triggers blood-vessel growth was injected directly into his heart...