CHECKUP : NEWS, TIPS AND TRENDS IMPROVED TREATMENTS DECREASE HEART DISEASE DEATHS.Thanks to better treatments, the number of people who died from heart disease in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. decreased by a third from 1980 to 1990. Surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. to restore proper blood flow to the heart, such as angioplasty, and medications, such as clot-busting drugs, accounted for about 70 percent of the nationwide decline in heart disease mortality, the researchers said. High on literature: The fungi that feed on old paper may be mildly hallucinogenic hal·lu·ci·no·gen n. A substance that induces hallucination. [hallucin(ation) + -gen.] hal·lu , and the ``fungal hallucinogens'' may cause an ``enhancement of enlightenment'' in readers, according to a report in the British medical journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other the Lancet cited in Men's Fitness magazine. The source of inspiration for many great literary figures may have been nothing more than a quick sniff of the bouquet of moldy moldy animal feed overgrown with fungus; the feed may be harvested and stored or be still in the ground. moldy corn disease see leukoencephalomalacia, fusariummoniliforme. books, the report says. Licking leukemia: Leukemia cells may not have to disappear for the disease to be cured, Houston scientists have reported. Using an ultrasensitive test to detect cancer cells, researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center studied 24 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia acute lymphoblastic leukemia n. Abbr. ALL Lymphoblastic leukemia occurring mainly in older adults, characterized by rapid onset and progression of symptoms. Also called acute lymphocytic leukemia. , the most common form of childhood cancer. After their initial chemotherapy, seven patients had relapsed and 17 were in remission. And of those 17, the scientists found, 15 had high levels of leukemic cells in their bloodstream - as many as 100,000 or even 1 million cells. ``That was absolutely an unexpected result in my mind,'' said pediatrician Dr. Mark Roberts, one of the study leaders. The results were reported in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. . The researchers would now like to find out how some patients can have cancer cells left in their body and remain healthy. ``We have to rethink how we are curing these patients,'' Dr. Roberts said. ``The cure of leukemia must be more complicated than eradicating every last leukemia cell.'' Learning more about how leukemia is cured could help improve the 75 percent cure rate of the disease. |
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