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To: GT who wrote (27178)	12/12/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: BigWave Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

Thanks Gorcon, that link worked! Looks like coverage will continue for awhile on this one.

To: GT who wrote (27178)	12/13/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Archie Goodwin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119973

Thanks for the correction. This may be of interest to some of you.I signed on at Medscape(free). It is a site that lists, in detail, the specifics of all medical conferences as well as any new technological advances in procedure, drug therapy, etc. The jargon can be a little overwhelming. The journals are all there as well as news. medscape.com Regards A.G.

To: GT who wrote (27178)	12/13/1998 12:37:00 AM
From: BigWave Dave	Respond to of 119973

ASTM wires: (Last one, I promise) >>With bone marrow transplants, Rubinstein said, at least five of the six genetic markers on the infection-fighting white blood cells must be identical in donor and recipient. But cord blood transplants with only a four-of-six match have succeeded.<< ---MSNBC >>"It's like a blood transfusion. They came in the room with four syringes. They inject into the I.V., and it gives you a second chance at life again, just that simple process," << >>"We think if we had a bank of 100,000 instead of 9,000 that we could probably find a suitable match for 90 percent of the patients who don't now have a related donor who's suitable," << ---CBS >>They said 80 percent of children under the age of 2 who would otherwise die lived when they got such transplants.<< Overall, 68 percent of the children survived, they told a meeting of the American Society of Hematology in Miami.<< ---CNN >>Of the 50 children, 45 grew new marrow and 34 of the patients are still alive.<< ---BBC >>"It makes sense to go quickly to transplant and not to wait several months before you find a donor. And in those settings, cord blood is readily available," Kurtzberg says.<< ---WRAL Online >>Emory has done five such transplants in the past five years in patients ages 4 to 12; the most recent one was just two months ago, Yeager said. So far, all are doing well, with four far enough along in recovery to be considered cured. Yeager gives 50-50 odds that the world's first cord blood transplant for sickle cell will work. Doctors should know in about three weeks, by New Year's Day, whether it's "taken hold." << ---The Atlanta Journal >>When a bone-marrow donor could not be found for 4-year-old Joshua Kelton, who was suffering from leukemia, his parents, stationed at a military base in Honolulu, conceived another child in the hope that the baby's tissues would match Joshua's. Joshua was treated with his infant brother's cord blood in August, and has been declared free of leukemia. "Right now, he's 100 percent," his father said in a telephone interview, "a normal child, the way he was before this happened." << ---New York Times >>In the new study, researchers produced enough cord blood cells for adults weighing as much as 220 pounds, by growing the cells in a laboratory ''bioreactor.'' After 12 days, there was as much as a 50-fold increase in some cells.<< ---Chicago Sun Times >>The Duke team performed successful booster transplants in 19 of 28 patients, who ranged in age from less than 1 year to 36 years.<< ---Fox News Media Tidbits by: patriko44