Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norfolk by Monday morning. Says Hodges: "I'm impressed by the fact that someone cares and is offering a helping hand." Concurs Harry Kass of Brooklyn, 23, who last April flew on an AT&T company plane from San Francisco to Morristown, N.J., following treatment for bone-marrow cancer: "It enabled me to avoid crowds on a commercial flight when my immune system was weakened by drugs...
...book Life and Death on 10 West, Eric Lax ventures to the other side of the consulting room. Working with physicians, Lax explains the complexities of a radical bone-marrow transplant technique that is now proving 50% effective in treating some types of leukemia. The result is a model of medical writing for the layman. The astonishing procedure, used by Dr. Robert Gale and his colleagues at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, is described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self...
...Sports Medicine Clinic, thought otherwise. He called Salazar's coach, Bill Dellinger: Might Salazar be suffering from a physiological condition Clements termed nonanemic ferritin deficiency? A former college running teammate of Dellinger's, Clements has theorized that ferritin, an iron complex stored mainly in the bone marrow, is used or discharged by endurance runners faster than it is replaced. The consequences, says Clements, are that "a runner would fail to improve with training." Tests on Salazar showed a low level of ferritin...
...destroying instant that all my adult life I had believed in God and this knowledge was a vision of God. Fright entered the very marrow of my bones. Surrounded, swamped, confused, all but destroyed, adrift in the universal intolerance, mouth open, screaming bepissed and beshitten, I knew my maker and fell down...
DIED. David, 12, the longest survivor of severe combined immunodeficiency; 15 days after being released from a lifetime of isolation inside a plastic "bubble"; of complications after a bone-marrow transplant; in Houston (see MEDICINE...