Word: peg
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...medically created babies who are the product of purchased eggs or sperm? If there are laws allowing adoptees to have access to their birth parents, there should be access for all people to records of their biological parentage. I hope legislators keep these people's rights in mind. PEG LOPATA Francestown...
Pitch a story to any editor and the first question is likely to be: What's the peg? Not so at the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA's longtime editor, Dr. George Lundberg, was fired on Friday for having apparently linked the publication date of an article that surveyed how college students define "having sex" to President Clinton's impeachment trial. The AMA blamed Lundberg for "inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting JAMA into the middle of a debate that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The incident is fascinating, says Time medical columnist Christine Gorman, "because there...
...when she was two years old, Ashi began taking PEG-ADA, a newly developed drug that consists of the missing enzyme protected by a chemical sheath that enables it to function in the bloodstream for days. While the drug requires weekly injections for life at an annual cost of more than $60,000, it has enabled most of the handful of ADA-deficient children to survive. However, it provided only marginal help for Ashi, and she began to fail...
...procedure was repeated a dozen or so times on the little patients. For Ashi it went on until the level of ADA in her bloodstream was 25% of normal, more than enough to protect her. As a precaution mandated by the FDA, she continued to receive weekly doses of PEG-ADA during her gene treatments...
...past six years, neither girl has had a further infusion of her own altered T cells. Both are taking reduced doses of PEG-ADA, and periodic tests confirm that their re-engineered cells are surviving and producing the ADA enzyme...