Sentences with phrase «dying patients currently»

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Progeria affects one in every four million to eight million births; there are about 50 cases currently recognized worldwide with 10 to 12 in the U.S. Common symptoms include fragile bones, hair loss, limited growth, stiff joints and wrinkling of the skin by as young as age two; about 90 percent of progeria patients die by age 13 from fatal heart attacks or strokes, according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

Forty - five percent of terminally ill patients in the U.S. currently die under hospice, and its use has grown by more than 20 percent over the past decade.

Currently, an estimated number of 700,000 patients die from infections with these strains every year — and this death toll might rise.

Despite widespread use of currently - approved drugs, approximately 40 % of patients with heart failure die within 5 years of their initial diagnosis.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.