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...point. Though Murphy is just a first-time felon serving a mandatory four-year sentence for drug possession, the ailing 33-year-old inmate finds himself on a kind of de facto death row; his weakened heart has one-sixth its normal pumping power. He needs a transplant...
...most direct approach is to find a healthy copy of the missing gene and transplant it into the affected cells. That's the strategy Anderson, teaming up with Drs. Michael Blaese and Kenneth Culver at the National Institutes of Health, used in a landmark experiment three years ago. The disease the team targeted was severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), often called the bubble- boy disease because its most famous victim was encased in a plastic bubble during his short life to protect him from infection. One form of SCID called ADA deficiency is caused by a defect that blocks production...
...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...