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Last week's bone marrow registration drive to find a tissue type match for Alan J. Kuo '85 has come and gone, and most observers (including the editorial staff of this newspaper) have rightly congratulated drive organizers and the Harvard community for their outpouring of sympathy and support. The organizers no doubt had all the right intentions in putting together the drive,; and it would seem inappropriate to criticize an event recruiting potential bone marrow donors that. Yet th drive was conducted in a manner that seemed to contradict the very spirit of giving...
...poster asked in large letters above a picture of Kuo, "Are you Asian?" underneath which was the response, "Then you could save my life." While the posters did target Asians, this one was done out of an understanding of the increased likelihood that Asians would have the bone marrow type that could save Kuo's life...
...There is clearly a period at least early on where patients are not getting any type of pain relief," explains director Yurt. "It's too risky. You don't want to give them too much morphine. Otherwise they'll drop their blood pressure." Once the blood pressure stabilizes, however, doctors can begin dripping morphine directly into the veins, gradually increasing the dosage if the pain persists. Still, Yurt admits, "we can never relieve the pain completely...
...some control." Jack thought that a negative test result--one that showed no abnormality in the gene IT-15 on chromosome 4--would inspire him to consider moving to another part of the country. And if the news was bad? "Maybe I would be less of a Type A and not work as hard," he said...
...exception being Strothman, a transfer from Connecticut College who is just getting used to this type of boat...