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...advantage over some rapidly growing cancers. Young hearts, lungs and kidneys, it seems, are fairly resilient and can be bombarded with higher doses of toxic drugs than most adults can tolerate. And better medications for handling the side effects and consequences of chemotherapy and radiation--severe nausea, vomiting, anemia and infections--help children respond better to intensive treatment...
Sick Kids Need Involved People (SKIP) is the fulfillment of that promise. The organization has helped more than 7,000 families deal with the myriad issues that come up with home care for children on life support as well as those battling cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle-cell anemia, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, autism and other conditions. Margaret and her staff of 250 help families navigate the hospital, insurance and Medicaid systems; assist them with school and housing issues; and counsel parents on how to care for the healthy siblings of a sick child...
...introduces new genetic material to help fight or prevent a disorder. Treatment options are still in the experimental stages, and are not free of philosophical critics. But gene therapy has also been heralded as a potential cure for all kinds of genetic diseases (think cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia) and even for cancer - with promising lab results to back up the hype. For that reason, gene therapy is a hive of research activity. Ali is joined by many others, at the universities of Pennsylvania, of Florida, and of Iowa, for example, who have spent years working to develop gene...
...ovarian and stomach - continue to have high mortality rates, one reason cancer still kills 560,000 Americans every year. Side effects remain an issue as well, though antinausea medications are now so good that some doctors say it's rare for their patients to vomit. And drugs that prevent anemia and a drop in white blood cells mean patients can carry on with life's activities without the constant dread of contracting infections. Still, anxiety remains a steady companion for people living with cancer. "Dealing with the worry around tests and how well the drugs are working for recurrent cancer...
...Anemia begone! Spinach is back in dining halls, and students need not worry about that pesky E.coli O157:H7 every time they reach for their favorite leafy green. After identifying and containing the disease-bearing spinach implicated in the outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have signed off on spinach dated October 1 or later. HUDS is slowly but inexorably bringing the vegetable back, debuting with the spinach-topped Chicken Florentine on Saturday night and returning uncooked spinach to the salad bar this week. “The FDA has identified...