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Mona, if that is her real name, is a woman in her late teens wandering the south of France. But she is no ordinary postadolescent backpacker, for the season is bone-chilling winter, and she is not on a voyage of self-discovery prior to beginning graduate school. She has no home, no friends and no history she cares to discuss--even with herself. Her thoughts are focused on such basic matters as food and shelter...
While the pop performers entertained the crowd of some 25,000, the condition of many radiation victims worsened. Dr. Robert Gale, the UCLA bone-marrow specialist who has been assisting Soviet doctors in Moscow, reported that the death toll from Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger...
...UCLA colleagues and an Israeli specialist, was unaware of some recent diagnostic advances. Said she: "That's what comes of self-reliance. It's a pity. They are excellent specialists and could have been of much more help." Replied Gale, whose group assisted in 13 of the 19 bone-marrow transplants that were administered to the sickest victims: "We have worked together very successfully." However, eleven patients who underwent the risky marrow transplants have reportedly died...
...Robert P. Gale, a U.S. bone marrow specialist helping care for Chernobyl radiation victims in Moscow, arranged to go to Kiev yesterday to check on patients hospitalized there and discuss long-term medical care and case follow-ups. At least 299 people were hospitalized immediately after the accident. Kiev is 80 miles from the disaster site...
...operations were needed because massive radiation destroys vulnerable bone-marrow tissue. The vital substance acts as the body's production center for blood cells that carry oxygen, help to cause clotting and provide immunity against disease. Victims of damaged marrow can die within weeks of severe anemia, hemorrhaging and infection. To transplant the tissue, physicians use a syringe to draw out healthy marrow--usually from a donor's hipbone--and inject it into the patient's bloodstream. The marrow cells make their way naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor...