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...disease, which killed 60 people last year, is an infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
...People might experience a sudden onset of fever, rash, low blood pressure, and pus in the spinal fluid,” said Alfred DeMaria Jr., director of communicable disease control for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...traditionally enjoyed an electoral advantage on "values," the Democrats showcased it with a prime-time convention speech by the well-known medical expert Ron Reagan. Message? On the one side are the forces of the good, on the verge of curing such terrible afflictions as Parkinson's, diabetes and spinal-cord injury. On the other are the forces of reaction and superstition who, slaves to a primitive religiosity, would condemn millions to suffer and die. Or as Reagan subtly put it, the choice is "between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology...
When I was 22 and a first-year medical student, I suffered a spinal-cord injury. I have not walked in 32 years. I would be delighted to do so again. But not at any price. I think it is more important to bequeath to my son a world that retains a moral compass, a world that when unleashing the most powerful human discovery since Alamogordo--something as protean, elemental, powerful and potentially dangerous as the manipulation and re-formation of the human embryo--recognizes that lines must be drawn and fences erected...
...That's just what Huang does, injecting fetal OEG cells into the damaged spinal cord. What's odd is that they appear to have such a rapid effect. Axons regenerate only as fast as a hair grows, so it should take months for an axon to extend from the point of injury to a paralyzed area. Yet Huang's patients seem to improve within hours of surgery. "Something is happening that we can't understand, but can't ignore," Huang says...