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...only does the number of cases appear to be growing, but the infection itself seems to be changing. Back in the 1950s NTM infections were rare, usually occurred in male smokers and were generally curable. In the 1980s NTM emerged as one of the opportunistic infections that AIDS patients developed after their immune system collapsed. (Combination-drug therapy has since produced a sharp drop in AIDS-related mycobacterial infections.) Now, the typical patient with a NTM infection is an otherwise healthy Caucasian woman who is usually middle aged and often thin...
...patient, detail-oriented man, LaHaye can transform complex biblical passages into a map showing what he believes to be the very battle plans for the last world war, beginning with the massing of the Antichrist's armies in northern Israel and ending with Christ's ascent on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. Jenkins skillfully filters the outlines that LaHaye provides through the adventures of heroes Rayford Steele, a pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, who starts out Left Behind as a 30-year-old virgin and senior writer for TIME's fictional competitor Global Weekly. Their mission is to help...
...their pluripotentiality (their ability to develop into all different kinds of cells). Then you have to take those stem cells and chemically tweak them in complex ways to make them grow into specialized tissue cells--say, neurons for a spinal-cord injury. Then you inject the neurons into the patient and get your cure...
Well, the cow experiment shows the way to even more human betterment. Fetal tissue offers a far simpler and more promising way to produce replacement tissues--it skips all the complications of stem-cell biology and gives you tissue that you can implant right into the human patient. Millions are suffering, are they...
...AWFUL WAIT One of the worst things about breast cancer treatment is the awful wait after a patient starts chemotherapy and before she finds out if it's working. That may change. Italian researchers have tracked the rate at which a radioactive tracer "washes out" of patients' tumors and found that those with low wash-out rates respond better to chemo. With the data, doctors can switch treatments early or use drugs to boost the body's ability to respond...