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...Greg Chang fenced very strongly, and Brian Osserman, a freshman, was undefeated on the first day. He was just phenomenal," Baez said...
Chang ultimately placed second in the individual foil competition, with Osserman coming in fifth...
...question of ethics stood between renowned cancer researcher Elliott Osserman and his last remaining hope. For nine years, Parkinson's disease had been stealing his abilities -- to write, to walk and then to talk. Still, his mind continued exploring an important advance in cancer therapy, and with help from colleagues, he continued treating patients. Osserman's last hope was an experimental therapy in which the cells malfunctioning in his brain would be replaced by an injection of vigorous developing cells -- cells from a fetus that a woman had chosen to abort...
...time Osserman was accepted for the procedure at Yale, all federally supported research involving the transplant of tissue from aborted fetuses into humans was halted while a presidential panel weighed the therapy's ethical implications. In December 1988, after waiting several months, Yale decided to go ahead with Osserman's operation based on the panel's recommendation that the moratorium be lifted. Nearly all of the handful of transplants performed for Parkinson's have produced dramatic results, but for Osserman it was too late: he died within months. Says Yale team leader Eugene Redmond: "He may have been the first...
...accused has already vanished. Conspicuously absent from last week's arraignment was George Osserman...