Word: leukemias
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...case involves six families living in Woburn, Mass. who accused two major companies--W.R. Grace & Co. and Beatrice Foods Co.--of contaminating the town's well water with toxic chemicals that cause leukemia. The families alleged that the chemicals caused the death of five children. Eight years later, the plaintiffs settled out of court for $8 million...
...Association support this reform. They argue that in attempting to practice cost control, HMOs end up practicing medicine. Even judges have voiced frustration. Ruling in favor of an HMO in an Oklahoma case in which the insurer delayed a bone-marrow transplant for a woman, who later died of leukemia, a three-judge panel in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, "Although moved by the tragic circumstances of this case and the seemingly needless loss of life...we conclude that the law gives us no choice." Perplexed by such cases, legislators in Congress and in 27 states last...
...working-class families he represented in a suit that charged large industrial polluters with contaminating the water supply of Woburn, Mass. Expenses mounted so fast that Schlichtmann lost his Porsche and condo and filed for personal bankruptcy. The judge, in a questionable ruling, barred the parents of the leukemia-stricken children from testifying at trial. And the jury, its hands tied by the judge's instructions and denied access to important evidence, ended up ruling against the families on key parts of their suit. (The Environmental Protection Agency later found the companies liable for improper disposal of toxic chemicals...
...this story has a happy ending: the Dunster House alumnus is alive today. Numerous drives around the country--including one at Harvard--finally gave Kuo the match he needed to fight his leukemia...
Ashi's deteriorating condition made her eligible for a landmark experiment proposed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. In September 1990 a team led by Drs. W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese extracted T cells from Ashi and exposed them to mouse leukemia viruses into which human ADA genes had been spliced. The viruses, which the researchers had rendered harmless by removing all their genes, invaded the T cells and burrowed into their DNA, carrying the ADA gene with them. Finally, a billion or so of Ashi's T cells, many of them now outfitted with...