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Biotech / Medical : XOMA. Bull or Bear?
XOMA 26.33-8.6%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: Cacaito who wrote (9319)3/22/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: aknahow  Read Replies (2) of 17367
 
Confirmation of what you have said about much higher mortality from St. Mary's, itself.

Saving the lives of children with meningococcal disease

Meningococcal disease is a major cause of child death in the United Kingdom - the overall mortality rate is ten percent, but
up to sixty percent of those with shock may die. Unfortunately, many general hospitals lack the appropriate intensive care
facilities or experience of the condition, while often children are deemed too ill to transfer to specialist centres. Now St
Mary's Hospital Medical School, in conjunction with the NHS, has initiated a specialist retrieval team programme. The
consultant-led retrieval team travels to the general hospital, resuscitates the child, and then takes him or her to the intensive
care unit at St Mary's using what is essentially a mobile intensive care unit. This programme has saved the lives of
desperately ill children up to 200 miles from London. Because so many children have been treated at a one centre, the
Meningococcal Research Unit has been able to do basic research on the inflammatory mechanisms and immune responses
involved in the disorder.

E-mail: press.office@ic.ac.uk

Yes this is dated Oct 97. But one must ask was the 60% mortality figure just there to show what a great job they do with a lower rate?
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