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Genzyme’s Gorski echoes Crowley’s praise for the accurate depiction of the family’s struggle. She also credits the film with accurately portraying “The Mother of All Experiments,” the analysis of four experimental drug treatments for Pompe disease, of which Myozyme was determined the most promising product. She says that the film does an especially good job of conveying the sense of urgency cultivated by the experiment, as scientists toiled to find a treatment that would save rapidly declining young patients...
According to her mother, Amya immediately fell victim to a case of double pneumonia at birth in June...
...until the age of five, Amya’s home was the hospital. Her mother, Chele, stayed with her at a nearby Ronald McDonald House, but her father had to stay at home, making the four-hour drive to Duke University every other weekend...
...aging construction worker struggles to pay the bills for his sick mother’s treatments in the hospital and resorts to robbing the graves of dead Civil War officers in order to make ends meet. In “Lincolnites,” an expectant mother fends for herself on a homestead during the Civil War and is forced to kill and bury a Confederate soldier in order to save herself...
...early whining about glitches, like the need for snow to be helicoptered onto a dry mountain, and malfunctioning ice machines, seems silly. We'll remember the likes of Joannie Rochette, the Canadian figure skater who displayed genuine bravery while toe-looping and triple-axling two days after her mother died of a massive heart attack. We'll also feel for Sven Kramer, the Dutch speed skating legend who lost the tortuous 10,000-meter race because he illegally switched lanes, which is like an innocent man going to jail on the smallest technicality. (See pictures of the opening ceremonies...