A new scoring system.

• Position: HEALTH BEAT - Brief article

A new scoring system for a form of leukemia known as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) identifies patients who appear to have a low-risk form of the disease, but actually have poor prospects of survival, report researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. "We don't know who these people are but, if we can identify them, we can start those with a poor prognosis on early treatment," offers Guillermo...