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Stemming childhood autoimmune deficiencies

06 Sep 2009 - Preaching the News for Sunday

This Sunday's readings abound with images of God's power to heal physical infirmities. Until recently there hasn't been much hope for children born with serious deficiencies in their immune systems other than toxic chemotherapy treatments and enclosure in a sterile environment. Now a new treatment using antibodies from bone marrow stem cells offers new promise. A regimen using antibodies instead of high-dose chemotherapy may help even the sickest children, according to Dr. Persis J. Amrolia, a doctor in the department of bone marrow transplantation at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London, and colleagues. Their findings appear online in advance of publication in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. Source: An article by HealthDay News

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Get a move on if you know what's good for you

22 Jul 2012 - Preaching the News for Sunday

In biblical times people did a lot of walking and physical labor, including the shepherds whose image is used in a variety of contexts—some positive, others not—in the Sunday readings. Now that machines do much of the heavy lifting and carry many people around in cars, physical inactivity is causing 1 in 10 deaths worldwide, studies suggest, putting it on a par with the dangers of smoking and obesity.The results of a series of studies released in the British medical journal The Lanceturged public health officials to treat the situation as a pandemic. Harvard University researchers found inactivity caused an increase in deaths from coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, and breast and colon cancers and led to more than 5.3 million deaths in 2008 worldwide. If physical inactivity rates were to go down by even 10 to 20 percent around the world, researchers said, it could save between a half-million and 1.3 million lives each year. That could also raise global life expectancy by almost a year. One study argued that one-third of adults and close to 80 percent of adolescents worldwide are at increased risk of disease as a result of physical inactivity. Another looked at what specific programs and types of programs work to promote physical activity. "Because even moderate physical activity such as walking and cycling can have substantial health benefits, understanding strategies that can increase these behaviors in different regions and cultures has become a public health priority," wrote Gregory Heath, a researcher from the University of Tennessee and lead author of one study. Heath and his team found that the use of mass-media campaigns to promote exercise, as well as signs to remind people to be active—taking the stairs, for example—had some effect on getting people moving. The team also found that free public exercise events, creating an environment that is conducive to exercise such as bike lanes and walking trails, and improving public transportation also were likely to enhance physical activity. Source: An article by Matt Sloane for CNN

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Word of the Week

10 November 2024

Cardinal

\'kärd-nəl\

From Latin cardo, for "hinge," a high church official who ranks just below pope, can only be appointed by the pope, and serves primarily as a papal advisor.

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