How to Control Peanut Allergy in Children
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- Brain scans spot changes linked to Alzheimer’s
- Florida Medical Equipment Supplier Launches News Blog
How to Control Peanut Allergy in Children
U.S. News & World Report
They offer the possibility that some kids will be able to "outgrow" peanut allergy as well as dangerous allergies to such foods as eggs milk tree nuts and shellfish. Ryan Cassada can now eat peanut M&Ms and peanut butter cookies thanks to being one of the 33 children to try the experimental therapy. Ryan’s parents signed him up for the study at Duke University Medical Center when he was 2½. "I was a little bit nervous about it" says Ryan’s mother Rhonda Cassada because the treatment involved feeding peanuts to Ryan daily. "We decided if we could give our child a chance of getting over this allergy it could potentially save his life one day. "At first Ryan was fed trace amounts of peanut at the hospital. Doctors closely monitored him so they could administer drugs at the first sign of a reaction.
UCSF Medical Center receives $125 million gift for new hospital …
San Jose Mercury News
The gift given by Charles F. Feeney will help fund the construction of a children’s women’s specialty and cancer hospital complex and requires a 100 percent match to encourage support from other philanthropists according to the hospital. It is the largest single grant ever awarded by Feeney or The Atlantic Philanthropies the foundation he created. The foundation has committed $270 million to the Mission Bay campus making it the greatest cumulative supporter of UCSF since it was established in 1864.
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Brain scans spot changes linked to Alzheimer’s
Reuters
“Especially with the prospect of disease-modifying therapies early detection and monitoring of progression are important research goals in Alzheimer’s disease” Dr. Henneman at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and colleagues point out in the medical journal Neurology. To investigate how different brain changes might be tied to neurological conditions the research team obtained MRI brain scans for 64 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 44 patients with mild cognitive impairment and 34 unaffected people who served as “controls.
Florida Medical Equipment Supplier Launches News Blog
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