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...little more for him. Now 62 and retired, he's taking part in a stem-cell clinical trial at the London Chest Hospital. "If it works, it's probably the only treatment for somebody like myself," he says. In the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory, cardiologist Anthony Mathur uses a probe to map the electrical activity in Johnson's heart. Mathur finds 75% of it damaged, the consequence of earlier undetected heart attacks. Then he takes 10 syringes filled with either blood serum containing stem cells from Johnson's own bone marrow or just blood serum - as part...
This is one abiding irony of progress. The most wondrous technology exists that can pinpoint the exact location of a tumor, thread a tiny catheter up into the brain to open a clogged artery, pulverize a kidney stone without breaking the skin. But the simple stuff--like getting an MRI...
Lori Ferguson wishes her father hadn?t been one of them. George Ott, 63, of Brookfield, Connecticut was used to being in good shape. He ate properly and went to the gym regularly. Then came a diagnosis of kidney cancer in August, 2005. ?Ott chose to go to the Hospital...
What did the experiment test, and how credible are the results? The study, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, was a rigorous trial of 429 women who had Stage 3 ovarian cancer and were randomly assigned to receive chemotherapy either intravenously or through both the bloodstream...
When Bob Grinstead landed in Bangkok in March with his wife and daughter, he might have been mistaken for a typical tourist. But the 70-year-old retired computer salesman from Atlanta wasn't in any shape for sightseeing. Since suffering a massive heart attack in 1990, he'd undergone...