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Stem Cells Keeping Patients Alive

Acute liver failure is the loss of liver function that can cause death within days or even hours. Standard treatment consists of intensive supportive care intended to keep patients alive long enough that the liver might recover spontaneously // or a donor organ becomes available for transplantation. About 80 percent of patients will die unless they receive a liver transplant. A bioarti...

Gene Can Keep Brain Cells Alive

A gene which is connected to Parkinson’s disease can serve to keep brain cells alive. This has been revealed by the University of Colorado researchers, which has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.// The results suggest the possibility for new drugs that might regulate the gene and protect Parkinson’s patients from further cell damage. Parkinson’s disease is a disord...

HIV Patient Who Turned 50, Alive and Going Strong

M. Smith was diagnosed with AIDS in the early 1990's when she was 35, healthy, and never suspected that an ex-boyfriend, who died years earlier// of AIDS related complications, had infected her. Smith also had cancer which gave her less than two years to live. One day, flipping through a magazine for HIV positive people, she saw an advertisement offering to buy her $150,000 life insura...

Review Urges Restricted Use Of Devices To Keep Heart Patients Alive

An evaluation of the device's track record in the United Kingdom concluded that the UK's National Health Service should continue to restrict the technology's use at least// for now. The review was published in the latest issue of Health Technology Assessment, the international journal series of the Health Technology Assessment Programme, part of the National Institute for Health Research...

Newborn Baby Declared Dead by Doctors Found Alive

A premature baby, who had been proclaimed stillborn by doctors in northern Malaysia, turned out to be alive, local press reported Monday. Azmi Masiron, 26, was preparing for the funeral of his newborn baby girl at home in Kedah state when he noticed a movement from the baby placed on the funeral shroud. The shocked father then called for an ambulance to take the baby...

World's Oldest Man Says Sorry He's Still Alive

A 111-year-old Japanese engineer born at the end of the century before last was awarded official recognition Monday as the world's newest oldest man, and joked he was sorry for still being alive. Tomoji Tanabe, a teetotaller who has repeatedly said that avoiding alcohol was a secret of his longevity, was given a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records by the mayor of his loca...

World's First Face Transplant Patient Feels She is Alive Again

The French woman who received the world's first face transplant 18 months ago said Friday she felt reborn, but admitted she still looks at herself in the mirror with a combination of sadness and wonder. "I am back in the world of humans, those who have a face, a smile, facial expressions which allow them to communicate. And I am alive again," Isabelle Dinoire, 40, said in an interv...