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...that may take the edge off depression (or appetite). The treatment, called vagus nerve stimulation, consists of mild electric shocks from an implanted generator that are fed into the depths of the brain via a nerve in the neck. The current travels from the pacemaker-like gadget in the patient?s chest, through wires to the vagus nerve, and delivers the "feel good" or "I?m full" message to the brain every few minutes. While the precise connection between the treatment and the emotional or physical response remains a mystery to scientists, this treatment could hold real promise: The Associated...
Nobody wants to be an anomaly when it comes to medical matters, the kind of patient who prompts doctors to shake their head and say softly, "I've never seen this before...
...stepgrandparent needs to be patient in building a relationship with a child, and Klopfer recommends finding a special role. Cheryl and Robert Jones of Oklahoma City are recent stepgrandparents of two boys, five and seven. "It had been a long time since I was around children," Cheryl admits, "and there's a lot about dealing with them that I had forgotten." Since the elder boy is interested in computers, she quizzes colleagues at work about the best websites for kids. When he visits her, they explore the sites together...
Jesse died on Sept. 17 in Philadelphia, just months after his father told him he was a hero and put him on a plane to the university. He could be the first patient to die because of gene therapy, although the only thing certain is that he died of multiple organ failure. Doctors immediately began an internal analysis. "I consider this trial over," says Dr. James Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy...
Gene therapy is a promising but unproved field of medicine, currently undergoing some 230 clinical trials. Since viruses are so good at hacking into the human body, scientists figure they can be used as packaging material for whatever gene the patient lacks. In Jesse's study, all 18 participants had the same disease: ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTC) deficiency, which slows the liver's ability to metabolize nitrogen and releases deadly ammonia into the bloodstream. So Wilson's team harnessed the adenovirus (a cause of the common cold), neutralized harmful elements and used the virus to send in normal copies...