Word: leukemias
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Christina Crosby is twice blessed. She just may get to save one life in the course of giving birth to another. Her cousin Bobby Cooper, 33, learned last spring that he has a rare form of leukemia and might be a candidate for a stem-cell transplant. Duke is one of about a dozen hospitals and blood centers in the country that is collecting blood from umbilical cords and using the cells to treat cancer patients. So Christina has agreed to donate her cord blood, in hopes of raising the odds that her cousin will find a match when...
After donating bone marrow to her brother, who was battling the leukemia that eventually took his life, Stauffer took time off from school last fall to spend time with...
Harvard's biggest strength may lie in its formidable midfield, the glue to this talented offense. Stauffer rejoins the team after a trying year in which she took a semester off to spend time with her ailing brother, who lost a two-and-a-half year battle with leukemia in January...
...officials of both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt are eager to deny putting a hand on Abu Nidal for fear of retaliation by his followers, who are well trained, armed and scattered around the gulf and North Africa. The source doubts the story that Abu Nidal is ill with leukemia and suspects the Egyptians cooked that up to cover themselves. He also notes that the Palestinian Authority informed the U.S. when Abu Nidal was apprehended...
With Shepard's death, time seemed less elastic than we thought it was. The old outleaping moment of the race to the moon, science and technology's heroic counterpoint to the '60s' rage and mess, was now, as embodied in the first young all-American leaper, dead of leukemia at the age of 74. You may rescind the laws of gravity but not of mortality...