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...weak to be saved. The August vacation period had lowered the staffing levels of rescue squads and hospitals. And well before that, many elderly people had already become cut off from regular human contact. "Heat waves reveal conditions that are always present but difficult to perceive," notes sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago - a hot spell that killed over 700 in 1995. "Primary among those is the rise of an elderly isolated population that lives at the margins of major cities." The remainder of the fatalities - between 30% and 50% - came from...
...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Drs. Daniel Wallace, James Klinenberg and Dennis Goldfinger worked with twelve patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for whom medications, including gold and penicillamine, provided no relief. They removed either plasma (a process dubbed plasmapheresis) or the white blood cells called lymphocytes and plasma (lymphoplasmapheresis) in 20 sessions over eleven weeks...
...treatment is admittedly still expensive (hundreds of dollars per session) and untested for long-term effects. But even as a research tool it may prove valuable. Says Klinenberg: "If we can identify the troublesome factors in the white cells or plasma, maybe we can do something to provide lasting relief or even a cure...
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