Word: treatments
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...groups that are at high risk of expensive emergency hospitalization. For diabetics, specially trained nurses make home visits to patients with diabetic foot ulcers - which often become infected and lead to amputations. Over a secure video link, the doctor and nurse discuss the ulcers and decide a course of treatment. For patients on blood thinners, who are at high risk of stroke, doctors can remotely monitor the blood work of patients and alert them if they are at risk of hemorrhaging or clots. The excitement over such programs is palpable...
...wouldn't use the word cure," says Dr. Richard Burt, one of the co-authors from Northwestern University. "But it appears we changed the natural history of the disease. It's the first therapy for patients that leaves them treatment-free - no insulin, no immune suppression for almost five years...
...hormone that breaks down the glucose we eat in food. Eventually, the immune cells will virtually eliminate all of the body's beta cells, and glucose levels will start to climb. Researchers believe that the trigger for this attack lies somewhere within the immune cells, so one possible treatment for the disease may be to wipe out the entire existing immune system and replace it with a fresh one, derived from stem cells without this destructive trait. (See pictures from an X-Ray studio...
That's a milestone in diabetes treatment. Type I diabetes patients are locked in a constant struggle to maintain their body's insulin levels. Since their beta cells no longer produce the hormone on their own, patients must supply it themselves with multiple injections throughout the day and night, or using an insulin pump that dispenses insulin automatically through a permanent tube under the skin. Voltarelli's stem cell strategy provides a life-changing alternative that would take the burden off the patient and put it back where it belongs, on the beta cells...
...unclear how much cooperation Scotland Yard can expect when it comes knocking on Washington's doors. Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born British resident who was held in Guantánamo from 2004 until this February, failed in U.K. court bids to obtain evidence about the U.S. role in his treatment. The documents were withheld on the basis that disclosure would endanger future intelligence sharing by America and Britain. Campaigners see no discernible shift in this stance since President Obama took power. Stafford Smith says there is "reticence in the Obama administration to turn over all these stones." The CIA declined comment...