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Could Xolair take TNX-901's place? Not without a lot of new testing. "The problem is that they are not identical drugs," says Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai. "We don't know how the doses compare." Any doctor who prescribes Xolair off label to deal with your peanut allergy could well be gambling with your life...
...year-old man has been in the hospital for a month. Now, he lies unconscious, the only sound in his room the hiss and puff of the respirator keeping him alive. A nurse lifts the sheet, revealing a wasted, waxen-yellow body. "He will probably die," says a duty doctor impassively. "We've used all the resources of the hospital, but his chances are very slim...
...Doctors at the Nanfang Hospital may have done all they can, but Chinese medical officials have not. World health authorities are frustrated with China's secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero...
...Still, Chinese health-care workers are unwilling to talk too openly; one Shanghai doctor reports that local hospitals were warned by municipal officials last Thursday not to speak to any media, even the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency. This muffling was mandated to quell public panic over the outbreak, says a Guangzhou journalist, whose newspaper received a gag order directly from the Central Propaganda Bureau in Beijing: "The party's biggest fear is social instability...
...cushion." Her husband David, 59, a retired management consultant, also helps. They bought Valdez a house next door to them, pay for all her living expenses and spend about 80 to 100 hours a week maintaining her house, managing her medications, cooking her meals and taking her to doctor appointments. Together they are paid for 40 hours of care a week, totaling...