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There's truth to all these points of view. Infertility was clearly the motivation when Chinese doctors used a new technique to help one of their countrywomen get pregnant. Unlike some infertile women, the 30-year-old patient produced eggs just fine, and those eggs could be fertilized by sperm. But they never developed properly, largely because of defects in parts of the egg outside the fertilized nucleus...
...using a technique developed by Dr. James Grifo at New York University, Dr. Zhuang Guanglun of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou took the patient's fertilized egg, scooped out the chromosome-bearing nuclear material and put it in a donated egg whose nucleus had been removed. In this more benign environment, development proceeded normally, and the woman became pregnant with triplets who carried a mix of her DNA and her husband's--pretty much like any normal baby...
...Food and Drug Administration created a stringent approval process for such research in 2001--a process that Grifo found so onerous that he stopped working on the technique and gave it to the researchers in China, where it was subsequently banned (but only this month, long after Zhuang's patient became pregnant...
Your story "How To Heal a Hypochondriac" was unfair to many people who desperately visit doctor after doctor for some relief from their debilitating symptoms [HEALTH, Oct. 6]. When basic tests don't reveal anything, a patient is told there is nothing wrong and therefore it must be "all in your head." After doing my own research on the Internet, I learned that my problem has a name, fibromyalgia. Now that I am receiving proper treatment, I am doing better. True hypochondria must certainly be a problem, but as long as doctors label a patient a hypochondriac before ruling...
...Ratings: [down] 16% Ever heard of trauma fatigue? Everyone on the floor has been hit by a life-threatening condition or assaulted by a whacked patient. Oh, the plague again? Yawn ... [4 SHARKS...