Altered Immune Cells Rid a Girl of Her Cancer

Altered immune cells rid a girl of her cancer

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Emma had been ill with acute lymphoblastic leukemia since 2010, when she was 5, said her parents, Kari and Tom. She is their only child. She is among just a dozen patients with advanced leukemia to have received the … A major drug company, Novartis …
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Mobile County drug court milestone: State's oldest program graduates 100th class

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Every county in Alabama now has a drug court, which allows defendants to wipe away convictions by completing a regimen of treatment and supervision that demonstrates that they have beaten their addiction. Back in 1993, when Mobile County launched the …
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Positive change

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

As the 26-year-old describes his progress from hostile high-security inmate to a worker in the prison kitchen, the drop in security classification that allowed him to enter its drug treatment unit (DTU) and finally his role mentoring other addicts …
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