Best of 2008: Health photography
This year our Health section touched on numerous issues, including frozen embryos. (An estimated 500,000 embryos are in cryopreservation in the United States.) We also showed how cancer patient Kevin Carlberg received a personalized type of medical care at UCLA, in which doctors created a vaccine from his tumor.
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Dr. David Diaz, medical director of the West Coast Fertility Centers in Fountain Valley, holds a petri dish containing embyos suspended in a growth media. The embryos are smaller than a grain of sand. Many former infertility patients appear to be grappling over the fate of embryos they have no plans to use: An estimated 500,000 embryos are in cryopreservation in the United States. Best of 2008 Photography >>> Best of 2008 Main >>>
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