Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago, I might have read about cutbacks for teaching hospitals and said, "What a shame!'' Today I am lying in a bone-marrow transplant ward in a Cleveland hospital. I have acute leukemia. As I watch the teams of dedicated doctors and nurses collaborate to make me well, as I realize all the research that has taken place to make my life and comfort possible, as I participate in studies to help others, I see that the crisis at teaching hospitals is more than "a shame'': it's a tragedy. If all the people working for Medicare...
...political point of view. When Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts stated during the 1992 presidential campaign that his lymphoma was in remission and he had been cancer free for five years, he neglected to mention at that time a single recurrence just a year after receiving a bone-marrow transplant to treat the disease. Even though the selective disclosure became a media issue after Tsongas had already quit the race, he continues to be, to this day, quite healthy...
Named after William Sly of St. Louis University, who discovered the human disorder in 1973, Sly Disease affects many body tissues, including the bone marrow, joints, heart tissue, liver, spleen and brain...
...tonsillectomy can go bad, imagine all the things that can happen with a bone-marrow transplant, a coronary-bypass operation or an experiment in gene therapy. As medicine has become more complex and the pace of technological change has accelerated, the opportunities for error have multiplied. And when doctors are constantly testing new treatments, as they are at Dana-Farber, they cannot fall back on years of experience...
AILING. CARL SAGAN, 60, mediagenic astronomer; from a rare bone-marrow disease; in Ithaca, New York. Sagan is taking a leave of absence from Cornell to seek treatment for the potentially cancerous condition...