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| Marrow Transplant Success Makes Poster Child
of Employee's Son |
| By Rich McManus |
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Ufundi Thomas (r), a property accountable
officer for NIDDK, plays with his son Jaiden, whose health
was restored thanks to a bone marrow transplant. |
According to his father, Jaiden Thomas, 3, was
going to be a poster child for something in life — football,
music, track and field or just the sheer exuberance of living.
After all, the kid is irrepressible.
"He once saw a commercial on TV for a football game," recalls Ufundi Thomas, a property accountable
officer for NIDDK in Bldg. 8, "and as soon as it was over, Jaiden pretended to be the quarterback,
hunching down over center, taking the snap and taking a 3-step drop back to pass. It was amazing."
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| New Technique May Offer Fertility-Sparing Option
to Cancer Survivors |
| By Robert Bock |
Researchers funded by NICHD have developed a
new technique that may provide a fertility-sparing option for women
with cancer and other women at risk of infertility.
Although males can store sperm at a sperm bank, no comparable option
exists for women. A woman's eggs seldom survive the freezing and
subsequent thawing that stored sperm undergoes prior to fertilization.
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