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...provides the most conclusive evidence yet that an HIV patient’s genetic charactersitics affect the rate at which the disease progresses. Associate Professor of Medicine Marcus Altfeld and his team found that the structure of inherited immune system molecules, known as HLA Class I, partially determines HIV patients??�� reaction to the virus. “This means that some genetic factors have an important effect on HIV’s progression very early in infection,” Altfeld said. “What happens early in infection determines the rate at which the disease will...
...dogsled and carried with him a small black leather bag. Inside, Emmott kept various combinations of useless herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients??�� ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs comprise an impressive pharmaceutical arsenal available to the modern doctor. If you’re lucky, you’ll live to be a hundred...
...cells harvested from diabetes patients. The long-term goals of the research will be both academic and clinical, the researchers said.By creating stem cell lines using cells from patients with diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and sickle-cell anemia, researchers can “move those patients??�� diseases into the petri dish” and more effectively study them, said Daley at the conference.“The fact that these embryonic stem cell lines will carry the genes of that sick person is a remarkable opportunity to study the disease the person is carrying...
...were involved in the study. Four years ago, they became the world’s first patients to receive laboratory-grown organs, and have been closely monitored by researchers to ensure the organs were accepted by the body. While the results were not perfect, the procedure has changed the patients??�� lives. “They’re more socially acceptable,” said Alan B. Retik, senior author and chief of urology at Children’s Hospital, in a press release. “I think ultimately it would be a boon for them?...
...increase in the average annual death rate, in 2003, from 20,000 to 36,000. According to Doshi, the CDC made a strong connection between pneumonia-related deaths and the flu. The CDC ascribed 8,000 of the 36,000 annual flu-attributed deaths to pneumonia stemming from flu patients??�� weakened states. Doshi disagreed with this connection, saying that common annoyances like “stress and colds” can leave a person vulnerable to pneumonia. According to the CDC’s website, “Every year in the United States, on average: about...