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While Catholic clergy were perhaps the most vocal religious voices during the controversy over Terri Schiavos life and death, all major religions emphasize the preservation of life. Where standpoints vary, even within religions, is on the question of how long to prolong life.
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As a 26-year-old woman, Terri Schiavo likely never imagined she would abruptly fall into a vegetative state that would put decisions about her health care into the courts and the public eye for a decade. But simply assuming that an advance directive or living will would have prevented the family battles that raged over the decision to withdraw the artificial nutrition keeping her alive might be misguided, experts say.
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In SOD1(G93A) transgenic mice, a model for familial ALS, intraspinal injection of a lentiviral vector that produces RNAi-mediated silencing of SOD1 substantially retards both the onset and the progression rate of the disease.
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IgG from all narcolepsy patients significantly enhanced bladder contractile responses to the muscarinic agonist carbachol and to neuronally released acetylcholine compared with control IgG (P < 0.0001), whereas contraction of the sympathetically innervated vas deferens was unaltered.
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SNRIs may be performed safely with only minor side effects to be expected
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Once-daily rasagiline reduces mean daily off-time and improves symptoms of Parkinsons disease in levodopa-treated patients with motor fluctuations, an effect similar to that of entacapone.
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The therapeutic response to indomethacin is the most reliable differential diagnostic criterion for PH vs CH.
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In 15%, and without correlation to maternal disease severity or antibody level, neonatal MG due to the transplacental transfer of maternal antibodies results in transient weakness of the newborn that resolves within 12 weeks.
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The FDA has asked Pfizer to withdraw valdecoxib (Bextra) from the market due to safety concerns.
