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...DEAD BY NOW. He has had HIV for about 15 years. His immune system is barely functioning. And on top of that, in a desperate attempt four weeks ago to reverse the course of his disease, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital infused him with an experimental bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. Immunologists warned that his body would eventually reject the nonhuman tissue and that the operation would almost certainly end his life rather than prolong it. However, Getty is not only alive, but last week he was healthy enough to go home from the hospital. No matter...
...highly risky experiment, doctors infused bone marrow from a baboon into John Getty, a 38-year-old man dying of aids, in the hope of boosting his frail immune system. "I know I could die from the treatment,'' Getty said, "but I am certain that I will die if I do nothing...
...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...