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...civil complaint, Dees argues that Butler owes the Keenans damages, basically for the terror of it all. By arming the men, Butler was negligent, he says, because one of them?Warfield?had previously been charged with assault, while another, John Yeager, was thought to be emotionally unstable. Both men, among six defendants in the suit, are in prison, convicted of aggravated assault, while a third remains at large. Because none have any assets of note, Dees wants to seize Butler's property as a civil punishment...
Cord-cell transplants have been performed for other blood diseases, such as leukemia, but they remain experimental and highly risky. Dr. Andrew Yeager, a transplant physician at Emory University medical school in Atlanta, warned the Penns that not only might Keone die, but there was not even more than a 50% chance the procedure would do any good. After seven years of blood transfusions that were becoming more and more painful and increasingly ineffective, Keone decided he had no other choice. "Mama, I might die anyway," he told his mother Leslie, a medical technician, who left the decision entirely...
...bone marrow, the source of his sickled blood cells, as well as to neutralize his immune system so it would accept the new cells. These came from an anonymous donor at the New York Blood Center and were fed intravenously into Keone on Dec. 11 last year by Yeager and his colleagues at the AFLAC Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (formerly Egleston Children's Hospital...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the transplant, Yeager finally felt justified medically in pronouncing Keone cured. "The cord blood cells are now fully operational, making all healthy blood cells in Keone," he says. Equally important, there was no sign of sickle cells and no need for more transfusions. That, of course, was a coup for the doctors, who believe their widely watched experiment could benefit other severely ill sickle-cell kids who can't find matching donors for conventional transplants. Indeed, Yeager believes using umbilical cells could increase the number of successful transplants...
...Force test pilot Charles (Chuck) Yeager breaks the sound barrier...