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Family uses genetic engineering to save daughter’s life

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

From ABC News: the story of Katie Trebing, a little girl with a rare genetic disorder who needed a bone marrow transplant from a perfectly matched sibling to save her life.

Her parents Steve and Stacy used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to produce embryos, then screened the embryos through preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Katie was pronounced cured after receiving a bone marrow transplant from her brother Christopher. The experiences of the Trebing family were the basis of a series of articles in Newsday.

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Tough calls in transplant case

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Definition of experimental procedures is murky issue

From Los Angeles Times:

The parents of a seventeen-year-old leukemia patient are blaming their insurance company, Cigna HealthCare, for their daughter’s death after Cigna declined to pay for a liver transplant. The company later reversed itself but word of the decision came too late to save Nataline Sarkisyan, who had been in intensive care at UCLA Medical Center for complications following a successful bone marrow transplant.

The case highlights tensions among physicians, patients and insurers over the definition of experimental procedures.

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