Think of all the stuff that went down during the first open heart surgeries or the development of the artificial heart. Medical breakthroughs are usually pretty gorey to start with and then get figured out over time.
Judah On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:55 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > "About a third of the people die [during such transplants], so it's just too > much of a risk," Levy said. To perform a stem cell transplant, doctors > intentionally destroy a patient's immune system, leaving the patient > vulnerable to infection, and then reintroduce a donor's stem cells (which > are from either bone marrow or blood) in an effort to establish a new, > healthy immune system. > > Sounds pretty extreme :/ > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bill Wheatley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular >> >> >> -- >> William Wheatley >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288266 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
