Word: transplantation
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...from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
Suffering from Alpha1, a genetic form of emphysema, Pierce received a double-lung transplant in 1993. After intense rehabilitation, she now competes in bicycling events around the world. Last year she started Team Alpha 1, whose members participate in American Lung Association rides across the country to raise awareness of the disease. "This is a tool for patients to live as full a life as they can," Pierce says. "The body can work again...
Getty claims that animal-rights activists made harassing phone calls to his hospital bedside while he was recovering. The transplant doesn't seem to have taken yet, but when Getty regained his strength, he launched a counteroffensive. Last month, with a group of nine other AIDS patients, Getty sat down in the middle of a driveway and blocked traffic outside an animal-rights rally in Washington. Whatever PETA says, he proclaims, "is all lies and nonsense...
...what Buckhead most vividly dramatizes, perhaps, is the split down the center of the city between Atlanta and Georgia. For if to the rest of the state the capital seems an anomalous Northern transplant (more than half its residents, after all, come from somewhere else), to the boomtown developers in the glass-walled towers the rest of the state seems dangerously slow and Southern...
...patient told us how he was rescued from death by a kidney transplant at the age of ten, gradually lost his vision, and has lived with chronic pain. Senator Kennedy asked whether he had brothers and sisters. The patient replied, quite matter-of-factly, that two older brothers had died from the disease when he was very young, because kidney transplants were not yet available. So he felt fortunate to have been born recently enough to benefit from a life-saving transplant. The patient was also glad that affected children born yet more recently could avoid the kidney disease altogether...