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...Eager for any hopeful note, some reporters at the conference seized upon and overplayed a report by Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. Fauci revealed that one of his AIDS patients had regained his health and returned to work after treatment that included a bone-marrow transplant from his identical twin. Whether the patient has been permanently cured remains in doubt, and two other victims who received the same therapy have not improved. Fauci himself pointedly refrained from characterizing the procedure as a success, saying, "This is not a breakthrough, (just) a small but important building block...
...kind of medical classroom--a unique if horrific opportunity to learn how to cope with large-scale exposure to deadly radiation. So far, the lessons have been sobering. "This incident has demonstrated our very limited ability to respond to nuclear accidents," says Dr. Robert Gale, 40, a bone-marrow-transplant expert from UCLA who helped Soviet counterparts treat Chernobyl victims. "If we are very hard pressed to deal with 300 cases, it should be evident how inadequate our response would be in a thermonuclear...
...needed because massive radiation destroys vulnerable bone-marrow tissue. The vital substance acts as the body's production center for blood cells that carry oxygen, help to cause clotting and provide immunity against disease. Victims of damaged marrow can die within weeks of severe anemia, hemorrhaging and infection. To transplant the tissue, physicians use a syringe to draw out healthy marrow--usually from a donor's hipbone--and inject it into the patient's bloodstream. The marrow cells make their way naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor...
...fire. A similar request went out the same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward to offer assistance, but the Soviets politely rejected it, saying that they had the means to deal with the situation. Moscow did invite Dr. Robert Gale, a UCLA bone-marrow-transplant specialist, to provide medical aid to Chernobyl victims...
Marcos is gone; Baby Doc too. So why not dump all the other dictators? Because democracy is not that easy to transplant...