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Andrew was one of three youngsters with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency treated with the new technique in the past two weeks. Doctors at the University of California at San Francisco performed an operation identical to Andrew's on Zachary Riggins, a three-day-old infant. And at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an 11-year-old girl underwent a similar procedure. These three cases mark an important new phase in the rapidly expanding field of gene therapy. Earlier experiments involved inserting beneficial genes only to treat disease, not to cure...
...guard against the possibility that the gene therapy will not work, doctors will initially treat both infants with weekly injections of PEG-ADA. "We have no intention of letting these children get sick while we're waiting to see if the stem cells ((become functional))," says Wara. "When we see that this has happened, then we will start withdrawing the enzyme replacement." But will it happen? "My personal hunch is that this is going to benefit these two children," says Kohn. "If it does, then we can go on to more common diseases...
...exactly where the health- care system stinks." Even some doctors reluctantly agree. "A significant percent of the American public sees Kevorkian as a reasonable alternative to modern medicine," says professor George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine. "He's a total indictment of the way we treat dying patients in hospitals and at home. We don't treat them well, and they know...
...Well, sort of. Under the Clinton plan, Americans will join large insurance pools and will be able to choose among several different types of health plans, depending on how big a share of the costs of care they are willing to pay. Some will join health-maintenance organizations, which treat patients for a flat fee. Others will sign up with a group of doctors and hospitals. Most people will be able to choose among the doctors working for the plans, but that does not mean everybody will be able to continue seeing the doctors they know...
...Monsanto suppressed data that would have put its product in an unfavorable light. The biggest issue, he and other scientists say, is that the hormone can lead to udder infections that not only are painful to cows but also could have consequences for those who drink the milk. Farmers treat the animals with powerful antibiotics that find their way into milk. Humans who drink the stuff can harbor bacteria that develop resistance to those antibiotics, and thus run the risk of developing infections that are hard to treat...