This week’s science section of the Times seems even more bountiful than usual. One article noted that we are gaining roughly a year of life for every year we are alive and healthy, but cautioned that we are probably going to live that extra year and more enduring some kind of debilitating illness. That should [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Translocations in T-cell lymphoma: A first
December 9, 2010 – 4:11 pm
A Mayo research team recently scored a first that garnered some valuable information regarding biomarkers for T-cell lymphoma, a fatal condition that has a 60 to 70 percent mortality rate. The up side is that this discovery may lead to therapeutic targets for future study, once the findings published in the journal Blood are validated. [...]
Improving Diagnosis and Care for Critically-Ill Children: CTSA Connects the Dots
December 6, 2010 – 11:10 am
It’s 2 a.m. in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A three-pound, premature newborn suddenly spikes a high fever, signaling an inflammatory response. Pediatricians and nurses confer about the cause: is it sepsis, a life-threatening infection spreading through the baby’s bloodstream, or is it a non-infectious cause? Sepsis calls for a course of high-powered intravenous [...]
