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...outpouring of support for Kuo by Harvard students is something that deserves praise. We can only hope that Harvard's and the many similar drives organized around the country will prevail in saving Kuo and others desperately in need of a bone marrow match...
...20th century. This 1997 issue celebrates men and women who have contributed to those advances. Not all of the assemblage of healers presented here are doctors. Nurses, technical personnel and seekers of botanical remedies have also found the limelight. So has one committed American woman who donated her bone marrow to a desperately sick person whom she had never met. When she was asked what moved her to come forward, and how she could tolerate the weeks of soreness and fatigue that follow the marrow harvesting, her reply was unassuming. She did it, she says, because "there's no choice...
...greatly reduced the risks from anesthesia during the past 10 to 15 years, have brought about some substantial changes. "Now no newborn is too sick to get pain medication," Berde says. In general, there seems to be more effort to reduce kids' pain from all medical procedures, including bone-marrow biopsies, spinal taps and repeated blood drawings. Says Berde: "I think most major children's hospitals are changing. There is less willingness than there used to be to hold kids down and brutalize them...
...hospital. But she checks in at the day-surgery department and is summoned to an examining room, from which she emerges a few minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart of her marrow to be transplanted into a young patient dying of leukemia. She has never met the patient, who lives in Europe. They do not even know each other's names. They have been brought together by a computer search...
...Bone-marrow transplantation is often the last hope for people with devastating diseases: leukemia and other cancers, and certain genetic disorders of the blood, immune system or metabolism. Cure rates range from 20% to 80%, depending on the disease, its stage and the degree of compatibility between the donor's marrow and the recipient...