One in every 400 children has type 1 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and children are more frequently developing type 2 diabetes, normally an adult disease linked to obesity.
"Although we believe there are still a few tuberculosis bacteria in his lungs, ongoing antibiotic therapy should kill those, " said Dr Gwen Huitt, director of the hospital's adult infectious disease care unit.
While some experts insist Syndrome X is a disease and that a genetic flaw is the cause, others argue Syndrome X is merely a precursor to other ailments, including heart disease and adult-onset diabetes.
But the equation is different from an otherwise healthy adult with a few heart disease risk factors.
Patel has pioneered the use of adult stem cells to treat heart disease.
In another path-breaking example, consider the case of Dr. Lucas Wartman, a young physician who developed adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease that is usually rapidly fatal, and for which there is no effective treatment.
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As a young adult, Carla suffered from serious kidney disease and, received a kidney transplant.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of adult smokers in the U.S., 28.9% live below the poverty level, while 18.3% of smokers live at or above the poverty level.
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If it works in adult blindness, it may be possible to treat the disease with far cheaper doses of Avastin than with Lucentis, Porges argues.
Osiris Therapeutics of Baltimore has several trials under way using adult stem cells to treat the intestinal inflammation known as Crohn's disease, repair damaged tissue following a heart attack and prevent the progression of arthritis.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Studer spent years trying to transform adult stem cells into neurons to study why they die off prematurely in Parkinson's disease.
It doubles the risk of heart disease and stroke, and it is the country's leading cause of adult blindness, kidney failure, and non-traumatic amputations.
Embryonic stem cells have great potential for treating human disease because of their ability to generate almost all the cell types found in the adult body.
Outside the U.S., adult stem cells have been used to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes in Argentina, heart disease in countries including Germany, Thailand and India, and babies with malformed hearts in Japan.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved vandetanib to treat adult patients with late-stage (metastatic) medullarythyroid cancer who are ineligible for surgery and who have disease that is growing or causing symptoms.
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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey 2004, more than 70% of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days--the highest percentage on our list.
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