• The plaintiff is John Moore, who underwent treatment for hairy cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA Medical Center). • The five defendants are: (1) Dr. David W. Golde, a physician, who attended Moore at UCLA Medical Center; (2) the Regents of the University of California (Regents) 3) Shirley G. Quan, a researcher employed by the Regents; (4) Genetics Institute and (5) Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation and related entities (Sandoz). • October
“Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.” This quote from Ambrose Bierce, while short and sweet, is an accurate reflection of my own personal philosophy. Throughout our lifetimes, many things get thrown at us; the good, the bad, the happy, and the sad. It is up to us on how we choose to handle these situations. I hold steadfast to the idea of optimism. And although at times it has come back to bite me, throughout my life experiences, I have proven to
is Leukemia. As defined by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow. The bone marrow is the soft tissue in the center of the bone that is responsible for the production of blood cells. The term leukemia means white blood. The term leukocytes refer to white blood cells, which are body’s defense against infections and other foreign substances. When Leukemia occurs there is an uncontrolled increase in the number of white blood cells. When
who had been trying to grow cells in his lab for years. In the meantime that Henrietta was recovering from her first treatment with radium, her cells were growing in George Gey’s lab. This all happened without the permission and the informing of Henrietta Lacks. The cells started growing in a unbelievable fast way, they doubled every 24 hours, Henrietta’s cells didn’t seem to stop growing. Henrietta’s cancer cell grew twenty times as fast as her normal healthy cells, which eventually also died a
unprotected sex. The doctor begins to do swabs in Sandra in case of STD’s and a swab for strep throat. Within two weeks, Sandra gets the result from the doctor. He explains to her that she has a severe decrease in lymphocytes especially her T helper cells. The doctor tells Sandra she is diagnosed with…Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This disease is also caused by retrovirus and can migrate into
Infection and Disease Interferon is a natural occurring substance produced by the body in response to infection and disease. It is a protein belonging to the cytokines family and they are a form of chemical messengers that send signals from one cell to another. Manufactured forms of interferon have been shown to help the body's immune system fight off disease more effectively. The interferons we use are made with recombinant DNA techniques. This means that we put the genes for interferons
soft tissue cancers, (Medicine Net)”. This form of cancer affects the body by taking out the supportive tissues and functions, causing extreme pain and discomfort for whom ever is unlucky enough to get it. One of the most common types of cancer is leukemia which “Cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and
such as “Illegal, Immoral and Deplorable” (147) and “Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?” (227), the questions of how research is conducted and who owns your cells once they are removed from your body are constantly posed. In the former, a researcher wishes to test the effects of injecting Henrietta’s “immortal” malignant cancer cells into patients both with and without cancer. The fault here is that these injections were performed primarily without consent. After eventually being brought in
every day. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author Rebecca Skloot, addresses this issue in her story of the women behind the infamous HeLa cells. Her story shows that although privacy is a right that is inherently protected by the law, situations of injustice can still occur. Examples of this in the book include when Henrietta’s cells were given to Dr. Gey without any consent from Day, the situation in which Mr. Golde’s spleen was sold without his permission, as well as when the Lacks
Hopkins hospital, where she visited many times and eventually passed away. During visits, her cells were taken without her consent, and given to scientist George Gey. Gey quickly realized that Henrietta’s cells were not like other cells that he had grown in his laboratory; they had the ability to grow exponentially in a cell culture, known as HeLa, and soon became seen as immortal cells. Not only that, the cells soon became one of the most prolific resources in medical research, having a major impact
Ten months of cancer claiming his body made him so small, skin and bone. When elephants grieve, they stroke the bones and lay leaves over the body to cover it. The day that I found out my grandfather had hairy cell leukemia, a rare strand of the already rare strand of chronic lymphotic leukemia, my best friend sat 205 miles away and gave me the best advice possible over Skype. She asked: “How do you get rid of an elephant in a room?” I thought of the massive size of an elephant, imagining one squeezing
(as cited by The U.S. Institute of Medicine’s report, 2009) there is “sufficient evidence of association between exposure to Agent Orange/dioxin and five illnesses: soft-tissue sarcoma, non Hodgkin 's lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (including hairy-cell leukemia), Hodgkin’s disease, and chloracne.” (pg.1) I was flabbergasted that something this volatile would be allowed in something babies would wear almost every moment of their lives until they were potty trained. Unbelievably, dioxin is
fifty truckloads and eighteen million dollars worth of supplies from Walmart. In Walton’s dying years, he stayed to his humble image until his death. Walton suffered from two types of cancers in the last years of his life. He suffered from hairy-cell leukemia and bone marrow cancer. He resided in the same house in Bentonville, Arkansas, that he had lived in since 1959. He was named the wealthiest man in the United States in the 1985 Forbes magazine. Sam’s view on the matter was, “All that hullabaloo
Before one can answer the question of “Who Owns the Body?” it must be defined what the body is. The spiritual route of defining the body is to encompass the “soul” or “spirit” inside of the body. This is a deeper form of ownership in that an individual’s integral being is controlled as opposed to simply their physical form. Merriam-Webster defines the body as “a person's or animal's whole physical self” (Merriam-Webster). The physical form of the body is a factual, concrete definition of the body
The Millionaire's Mishap Sam Walton, founder of the retailing company Wal-Mart, once said, “If we work together, we’ll lower the cost of living for everyone...we’ll give the world an opportunity to see what it’s like to save and have a better life” (“Our History: Sam Walton”). Throughout the “Leaving a Legacy” unit, many historical and social movements as well as people and the legacies that they left, have been explored. Sam Walton created one of the biggest retailing industries in the United States