Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week's bone marrow registration drive to find a tissue type match for Alan J. Kuo '85 has come and gone, and most observers (including the editorial staff of this newspaper) have rightly congratulated drive organizers and the Harvard community for their outpouring of sympathy and support. The organizers no doubt had all the right intentions in putting together the drive,; and it would seem inappropriate to criticize an event recruiting potential bone marrow donors that. Yet th drive was conducted in a manner that seemed to contradict the very spirit of giving...
...sure, there would not have been a bone marrow registration drive had it not been for the urgency of Alan's condition. Alan suffers from chronic leukemia, and his doctors have told him that he has one month to live. Flyers on campus and Alan's personal plea on his Web page detailed the accomplishments of his academic and professional career, and how much Alan means to his friends and family. Since Alan's likely tissue type match will likely be Asian, the drive pushed to register Asian donors. Promotional posters singled out the Asian community, and volunteers distributing flyers...
...typing, for a series of four genetically determined traits that, along with two more traits tested at a second level, must closely match those of the patient for a transplant to be accepted by the body. Neither Teri Majewski nor her husband matched, but they let the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry keep their records...
...swiftly. First, they essentially paralyzed the patient with drugs to reduce the demand for oxygen by his muscles, brain, lungs and other organs. Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Finally, intravenous fluids were administered to goad what little circulation he had left...
...Hamilton, Ont., O'Byrne, 46, works in a most unusual way to develop treatments for allergy-related asthma. In most of his studies, he himself is a test subject, periodically doing "challenges"--inhaling allergens to give himself short episodes of asthma. He has even examined his own bone marrow and tissue biopsied from his airways and lungs. "I'm a good subject," he says, "because I'm on time, and I do the test properly...