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For years, government guidelines on the care of people with Asthma concentrated on treating symptoms of severe Asthma attacks. But that emphasis is now shifting to a more day to day approach. On today’s Health Show, we’ll hear the latest guidelines on treating people with Asthma. We’ll also find out how stem cell therapy is already helping people with Diabetes...and not the stem cells you’ve heard the most about. Back to school means back to the back pack...and perhaps some back pain And a Boston man invites us into his half-silent world.
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NEW ASTHMA-CARE GUIDELINES
The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program recently released the Report of the Second Expert Panel on the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. The report, based on a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence accumulated during the past 6 years, updates the first asthma clinical practice guidelines. It was released at a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Meeting in San Francisco. Here to talk bout the new guidelines is Dr Derek Johnson, director of the asthma and allergy center of Fairfax, Virginia.
Stem Cells & Diabetes - Progress
Each year in the United States, more than 100,000 people are diagnosed with kidney failure...and the most common cause of kidney failure is complications from diabetes. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted by researchers at Tulane University, human stem cells not only repaired insulin-producing cells in diabetic mice, they also fixed cells in damaged kidneys. The great hope is that stem cells might one day pack this one-two punch when it comes to treating people with diabetes. The Health Show's Jim Horne spoke with Dr Darwin J Prockop the study's senior author and director of the Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He says that the stem cell story, thus far, has not been an unqualified success. There is more than one type of stem cell...and the category that has caused the most controversy - embryonic stem cells - is also the one causing the most problems for researchers...
Back To School Backpack Safety
Well just about every kid has said goodbye to summer break and headed back to school..and most of them do it with a backpack hanging off thier shoulders. Here to talk about keeping the backpack and avoiding the back pain is Dr Benjamin Roye, chief of pediatric orthopedics at Mt Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Bob Barrett asked Dr. Roye, what parents should be looking for when shopping for a backpack?
Necessary Losses
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up one day and realize you can longer hear from one of your ears? Judah Leblang never gave it a thought either...until it happened.
Judah Bruce Leblang is a teacher, writer and storyteller living in Boston, Massachusetts.
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