Living Better with SCD

Better Living through Monetary

By John B. Taylor Stanford University January 2008 Ten years ago macroeconomists began noticing and studying a remarkable change in the performance of the U.S. economy. The economy had become much more stable than in the past. The change appeared to occur some fifteen years earlier, in the early 1980s. Not only had inflation and interest rates and their volatilities diminished compared with the...

Art, Music and Creativity for Living Better with Dementia

Living with the Ilizarov frame was better than expected.

METHODS Psychometric tests explored body image, depression, and coping responses. Semistructured interviews were administered preoperatively, 6 months postoperatively, and 1 month after frame removal. Interview questions, derived from a pre-study focus group, related to participants’ perceptions of their daily experiences of living with the Ilizarov frame. Interviews were tape recorded, transcr...

Aptamer therapy for SCD?

In this issue of Blood, Gutsaeva et al describe an aptamer with high affinity for murine P-selectin and its efficacy in preventing vaso-occlusion in a mouse sickle cell disease (SCD) model.1 Each year, more than 200 000 children are born with SCD,2 yet there is a paucity of treatment options available for sufferers.3 The disease is caused by homozygous expression of a mutation in the beta globi...

Environmental biotechnology Better living through biochemistry

Believe it or not. new insights into microbial ecolog); have begun to provide benefits even a conservative curmudgeon can appreciate. I;nder its new fashionable name of environmenpal biotechnology, the 12 reviews in this issue will define some current!>, practical, and also hugeI> potential, benefits of this research. ‘I’he first two contributions define the new technolugics and their important...