Having a Child to Save Another

March 3, 2010

Back when I was a medical reporter for The Times, Laurie Strongin and her husband, Allen Goldberg — and most of all their son Henry — became the faces I saw whenever I wrote about medical milestones. I met them when they were one of the first two families to try a new technology, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or P.G.D., to have a baby who could donate the bone marrow that Henry, who was born with a genetic disease called Fanconi anemia, needed to live. (New York Times)