... six patients at a time. Now the unit serves 12 patients. Patients are treated for cancer, blood disorders and autoimmune diseases such as Crone’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. The unit is decorated with four built-in flat-panel televisions, recliners and overhead tile art ...

... symptom of the condition, and for expectant mothers, multiple miscarriages may also indicate the disease. APS is an autoimmune disease in which certain antibodies cause the blood to form clots, which can cause heart attacks or strokes. "His body ...

Today is April Fool's Day ... but it's no joke when it comes to Lupus. Lupus is a devastating autoimmune disease that affects more Americans than multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia or leukemia. Most victims of lupus ...

... pharmaceuticals. In the next shuttle experiment, the engineered soil bacteria will carry a gene capable of fighting a human autoimmune disease. Researchers will not say which disease. If the experiments lead to commercial applications, the results could ...

... intensive care, he couldn't lift his arms off the bed. At first Asnis suspected Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease that reduces muscles to jelly. She started treating the patient for that. The treatment didn't work. On Aug ...

... of the nationwide event is to continue efforts to educate the public and raise awareness of Lupus, a devastating autoimmune disease. According to information from the Lupus Foundation of Arkansas, Lupus effects approximately 1.4 million Americans ...

... prominent than the other, as Lauren's already is. Both girls have scleroderma, a chronic, sometimes fatal autoimmune disease related to rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Symptoms can range from a thickening of the skin to deteriorating function ...

... attacked the boy's brain. A hospital translator breaks the news to the boy's parents, and while his form of the autoimmune disease can be treated with powerful cancer drugs and steroids, it also can be fatal. ------ On the Net: PBS: http ...

... Cancer Hematology Outpatient Cancer Unit, which provides treatment for patients suffering from cancer as well as autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Services provided for patients with cancer, hematological (blood disorders ...

... s Cancer Hematology Outpatient Unit, which provides treatment for patients suffering from cancer as well as autoimmune diseases. Since the unit opened in May 2001, the patient volume has doubled. For more information on Conway Regional ...