Children OK With Long-Term Exjade

Children OK with Long-Term Exjade

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ATLANTA — Children with thalassemia and treated with the anti-iron overload drug deferasirox (Exjade) appear to tolerate the treatment for at least as long as 3 years while serum iron levels fell, researchers said here. After a median duration of 101 …
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Despite Success, Demand Low for Hand Transplants

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A year after a young amputee left the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with transplanted hands and forearms, the lead surgeon calls her progress "nothing less than spectacular." Yet Penn has no waiting list for hand transplants. The …
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Hazleton detention center sold, possibly moving out

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Community Education Centers of West Caldwell, N.J., operates offender re-entry and inpatient treatment services in 18 states and in Bermuda, according to the company's website, which says the company runs outpatient drug and alcohol programs for the …
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Two strains of C. difficile caused global epidemic, study shows

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Both strains originated in North America and developed the same mutation independently to become resistant to the antibiotic fluoroquinolone (which until that period had been an effective treatment for C. difficile infection). This acquired resistance …
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