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Who's to say they will never recover?

Article Abstract:

Long-term coma patients, known as in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), may recover after three years or longer, but there is only one rehabilitation unit in the UK, in Putney, London. Ordinary hospitals do not know where to place them so when they arrive at the rehabilitation unit they are usually undernourished and have muscular contractures. A coma arousal programme stimulates the patient through touch, smell and taste. About half regain consciousness but will be physically and mentally disabled.

Care and treatment, United Kingdom, Hospitals, Buildings and facilities, Coma, Coma (Medicine), Rehabilitation centers, Persistent vegetative state

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Must they beg for the price of a better life?

Article Abstract:

Multiple sclerosis, a chronic degenerative condition of the nervous system for which there is currently no cure, affects 85,000 people in the UK. The condition is being treated in the US with the drug Beta-Interferon, and promising results have been reported. It has not yet been licensed in the UK, but can be prescribed with the approval of a consultant under the 'named patient' scheme for new drugs. However, most GPs are reluctant to prescribe it because it is very expensive.

Multiple sclerosis

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Atishoo! Atishoo! They all cash in

Article Abstract:

Scientists have not yet been successful in developing a reliable way of curing influenza, so any new product in this area still attracts considerable attention. One of the lastest products is Glaxo Wellcome's GG167 compound, which is now to be the subject of large-scale clinical trials as numbers of influenza cases rise dramatically. This product could become available as a nasal spray or inhallation from as early as 1997.

Column, Influenza

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