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...other life-threatening microbes. Groopman believes GM-CSF could one day be used to treat a variety of diseases. "This is the first time that anyone has been able to regulate the white- blood-cell count in man," he says. "There are implications for cancer patients and people with bone-marrow disorders...
...sister club of the Los Angeles version) and Los Angeles' Comedy Store, have for years served as a proving ground for young comics, helping launch the careers of Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, David Letterman and dozens more. Now clubs with names like the Punch Line, Laff Stop and Funny Bone are spreading the yuks everywhere from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Ozark, Ala. At least 260 full-time comedy clubs -- ranging from posh nighteries like New York's Caroline's to converted Chinese restaurants -- are currently in operation, according to Barry Weintraub, publisher of a magazine called Comedy U.S.A.; two-thirds...
...position to comment on PBH. He obviously knows little of PBH's legal status or activities, and his comments on the Keylatch accident show how little he knows about summer day camps. The most serious injury suffered in the Keylatch van accident was a fractured collar bone, a common sports injury, not [as serious] an injury as Mr. Nordhaus might have you believe. Significantly, the overcrowding of children into the PBH van in the Keylatch accident was a clear violation of existing PBHA policy; it is not something condoned by PBHA. In any event, one child in the front seat...
...treatment the doctors used, the patient is first given chemotherapy, in order to lessen the number of the tumor cells. Next, the doctors removed one-fifth of the patient's bone marrow through needles...
They then treated the patients with intense chemotherapy, and then gave them high levels of irradiation, to ensure that the cancerous bone marrow would not return. Afterwards, the treated marrow was thawed and given back to the patients intravenously, Nadler said...