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...Ayala family had launched itself upon a sequence of nervy, life-or-death adventures to arrive at that denouement last week. Anissa's leukemia was diagnosed three years ago. In such cases, the patient usually dies within five years unless she receives a marrow transplant. Abe and Mary Ayala, who own a speedometer-repair business, began a nationwide search for a donor whose marrow would be a close match for Anissa's. The search, surrounded by much poignant publicity, failed...
...Ayalas did not passively accept their daughter's fate. They knew from their doctors that the best hope for Anissa lay in a marrow transplant from a sibling, but the marrow of her only brother, Airon, was incompatible. Her life, it seemed, could depend on a sibling who did not yet exist...
That is not likely to mollify the public, which craves absolute safety, not just in medicine but in all facets of life. "People have to think of the alternatives," says Dr. David Sutherland, a transplant surgeon at the University of Minnesota. "If your heart is failing and you're given one month to live without a heart transplant, are you going to say, 'I'm not going to have it because there's a 1-in-10,000 chance I'll get AIDS'? I doubt it." One positive side effect of AIDS is that it has forced major improvements...
...pharmacy, all in one convenient location. We have fresh coffee and croissants in the waiting room, as well as a fax machine, current issues of all the magazines and a concierge. And we promise you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, or the next organ transplant...
...Crimson in 1989, had been receiving treatment at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, England for three-and-a-half weeks. She had been in England for several months, attempting to attain citizenship so that she could be placed on a waiting list for a heart-lung transplant...