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...sounds like the sort of remedy a witch doctor might dream up: take blood from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
...team of researchers from Duke University and the New York Blood Center reported last week, the blood from a placenta is much more forgiving--largely because the immune cells in a newborn baby have not yet learned to attack foreign proteins. More than half the young patients in the study were still alive at least a year after their placental infusion; one boy is thriving three years after treatment...
...enzyme that manages Gaucher's disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects the spleen, liver and bones. Currently, the illness is treated with one of the world's most expensive drugs, derived from the human placenta...
...AIDS VIRUS have a 30% chance of passing the infection on to their unborn children. But conventional tests, which detect the presence of antibodies to the virus, cannot determine which babies are infected and thus need immediate treatment. The ambiguity occurs because the mother's own antibodies cross the placenta, causing the newborn to test positive even if it is not infected...
...hair-care products, attack the image-consciousness and blatant consumerism of today's post-teens. There is "SlimeWarrior...the shampoo of conquerors with patented ten-minute algaeplasma slime formula." And there's "HairHenge, containing folliclemaintenance secrets devised by the ancient druids." Not to mention "Monk-on-Fire, containing placenta, nectarine-pit extract, and B vitamins...