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Among the first to benefit from the new techniques were Jim and Sarah Redington, of Hot Springs, Virginia. By 1994, after eight years of waiting, they had nearly given up hope of having a second child. Jim, a family physician, was treated for testicular cancer in 1985 while Sarah was pregnant with their daughter Rebecca. He could no longer produce sperm, and the samples he had stored at a sperm bank before his cancer treatment had failed to make Sarah pregnant again. Not even the in vitro process resulted in conception. "The doctor said it didn't work and never...
...technique their physician had predicted, is known as ICSI--for intracytoplasmic sperm injection--and had first been performed successfully in Belgium in 1992. Injecting a sperm cell into an egg may sound like a simple procedure, but attempts had failed until researchers figured out how to manipulate the sperm and egg without damaging them. U.S. clinics now do thousands of icsi procedures a year, with a success rate of about 24%. The technique can help men with low sperm counts or motility, and even those who cannot ejaculate or have no live sperm in their semen as a result...
...urgently needed for the 20% of depressed patients who do not benefit from existing drugs. Researchers hope to come up with compounds that begin acting immediately rather than in a period of weeks. "The Holy Grail of new antidepressant treatment is rapid onset," asserts Dr. John Ascher, a research physician at Glaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. "We're talking about medicine that takes effect in just...
...with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching. The mere mention of it to a Western physician would invite a stern, finger-wagging lecture on the perils of quackery...
Insurers too have begun to take notice. Several pay for acupuncture, biofeedback and massage, if prescribed by a physician. One company, American Western Life of Foster City, California, covers a wide range of treatments under a pioneering wellness program. Twenty others even cover Dr. Dean Ornish's yoga, meditation and diet program for reversing coronary heart disease. Says Ornish: "When you compare the cost of an angioplasty to the cost of this program, the insurers are saving $5.55 for every dollar they spend. Moreover, 90% of the people recommended for bypass have been able to avoid it." Chiropractors, long...