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...lack their traditional support networks of parents and old friends, but there is only the shadow of an advising structure. For some freshmen there is no one with whom to share the intense pain and loneliness of that first miserable year other than Johnny Walker or Cider Jack, two patient listeners...
...study was motivated by Hiramatsu's 1996 discovery of vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in a four-month-old male infant suffering from staphylococcus aureus infection after open-heart surgery. The patient failed to respond to vancomycin therapy and was cured only with a combination of other antibiotics. The strain was named Mu50 and became known as the world's first case of VRSA...
...before returning to his life in San Francisco, Kuo must stay at home on out-patient basis for two months...
According to Dr. Stan Riddell of the Hutchinson Center, a scenario such as this is the best that a patient could hope for. But Kuo is still not totally off the hook. According to his father, Kuo is still at risk for developing a more serious case of GVHD, and the possibility of a relapse is "still high" for his first year of recovery. However, the risk of relapse decreases with time...
...wonder my head off. Alzheimer's creates only indecipherable stares and shattered monologues. The patient broods like a dark road or spews smashed china; don't even bother to go for a broom...