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...Epstein's article, "Ignorance Can Be Lethal"(April 30) focuses much needed attention on the serious issue of obtaining essential medical assessment of a student or guest who presents a severe and potentially life threatening level of intoxication. The scenario described indicated a need for prompt intervention. A call to HUHS's 24-Hour Emergency line at 495-5711 would have provided advice and confidential help. HUHS's primary concern is the safety and well-being of the student or guest and the need to provide timely assessment and intervention in order to support recovery and avoid grave injury. Clinicians...
...Epstein's article, "Ignorance Can Be Lethal" (April 30) focuses much needed attention on the serious issue of obtaining essential medical assessment of a student or guest who presents a severe and potentially life threatening level of intoxication. The scenario described indicated a need for prompt intervention. A call to HUHS's 24-Hour Emergency line at 495-5711 would have provided advice and confidential help. HUHS's primary concern is the safety and well-being of the student or guest and the need to provide timely assessment and intervention in order to support recovery and avoid grave injury. Clinicians...
Battling cancer with immune-system transplants is a straightforward--if searing--procedure. Used only with the most lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that...
...statistically significant advantage for transplant therapy. The two studies that focused on metastatic disease showed no real advantage in terms of survival. One of those studies did show that metastatic patients who underwent transplants had longer remission periods before relapsing--no small thing for people facing a potentially lethal disease. Moreover, the patients in all five studies must be followed for several more years before the research can be considered complete. Nonetheless, concedes Dr. Edward Stadtmauer of the University of Pennsylvania, who headed one of the trials, "it's not clear that this treatment is a major benefit...
...launched each day during the first week of the gulf conflict by 2,700 warplanes. This week NATO proposes to try to close the gap. The tally still won't come close to the gulf numbers, but Pentagon sources say the air assault will be far more substantial--and lethal--than anything...