Saving Henry: A Mother's Journey
Laurie Strongin, . . Hyperion, $25.99 (271pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-2356-1
Within a month of his 1995 birth, Henry Strongin Goldberg was diagnosed with Fanconi anemia, a rare, frequently fatal genetic disease that disproportionally strikes Ashkenazi Jews. It frequently leads to aplastic anemia, a fatal disorder compromising the body's ability to fight infection unless cured by a successful stem-cell transplant from the umbilical-cord blood of a perfectly matched sibling donor. As previously chronicled by a
Reviewed on: 02/01/2010
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 288 pages - 978-1-4013-9507-0
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