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...from waiting for more research, Huang is branching out. Eighteen months ago he began performing the surgery on patients suffering from the degenerative disease ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS kills most victims within five years. By transplanting OEG cells to just below the cortex of the brain and in the spine, Huang claims to have slowed the progress of the disease in "several" of his 40 patients, and offers video evidence of one who regained the ability to walk. Another patient, Chicago-based playwright Ben Byer, was diagnosed with ALS in 2002 and underwent surgery...
...What Huang wants now is a high-profile patient to showcase his procedure. He has approached Christopher Reeve, but says the quadriplegic actor opted against having the operation. "I can't be sure, but maybe he could come off the ventilator after treatment," says Huang. A week after her surgery, Nan Davis is no longer sure that her sense of touch has improved, but her back and stomach muscles feel stronger. She hopes "in a decade this will become standard treatment." Until the results are more verifiable, though, it's unlikely the procedure will spread far beyond this one crowded...
DIED. ALEXANDRA SCOTT, 8, spunky young cancer patient whose front-yard lemonade stand grew to a national, million-dollar charity research fund; of cancer of the nervous system; in Philadelphia...
...hospitals and health-care facilities across the country reported almost 200,000 mistakes in prescribing and dispensing medicine, according to the United States Pharmacopeia, the organization that sets standards for prescription and nonprescription drugs. More than one-third of these mistakes involved adults 65 and older. "The average hospitalized patient in this age group gets between eight and 14 different medications every day," says Dr. Christine Cassell, president of the American Board of Internal Medicine. "It's not surprising that mistakes occur...
...after decades of chronic underinvestment and the longest waiting lists for operations have been reduced. The Labour government has been loath, however, to question the basic structure of the NHS - to the detriment of British patients who can't afford private care, says Dr. Maurice Slevin, an oncologist and member of the U.K. organization Doctors for Reform. "Here patients have no power," he says. "We want to move away from a Soviet-style, monolithic, nationalized industry that provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff...