Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California jury has determined that Health Net, the state's second largest HMO, must pay $89.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the family of a now deceased cancer patient denied coverage for a bone-marrow transplant, a procedure that the HMO considers experimental. The company will appeal...
...that causes some colon cancers, other researchers are seeking ways to fix the damage done by these mistakes of nature. Still in its infancy, the field of "gene therapy" has spawned dozens of experiments aimed at treating ailments ranging from cystic fibrosis to brain tumors. The goal is to transplant new genes into humans to do the work of defective ones -- or to give patients extra genes useful in fighting diseases...
...people receive the best care available? Should money be the sole determinant for apportioning health care, as it is for so many other commodities--or does health care, by its very nature, transcend mere monetary concerns? Should age play a part in determining who receives a kidney or heart transplant? People have a right to know how the health care debate will fundamentally change the face of health care...
PATHOGENS: These include bacteria, viruses and protozoa such as the cryptosporidium that struck Milwaukee. These sicken 900,000 people a year, says the N.R.D.C. report, and kill perhaps 900, usually those with weak immune systems (the very young and very old, AIDS sufferers and organ-transplant patients...
...years ago, a California couple made a remarkable decision when faced with the news that their daughter was dying of leukemia. The father braved a vasectomy reversal and the mother a pregnancy at 43 to have a new child born for the express purpose of providing the bone-marrow transplant that saved the older child's life...