Objective To discuss the effect of health education to family members of patients with chronic heart failure. Methods 150 patients with family members as accompanies were divided into the observation group and the control group with 75 patients in each group. Health education was given to patients as well as their family members in the observation group, while health education was given only to the patients in the control group. The mastering of disease-related knowledge by family members of the observation group was observed after 15 days. The rehospitalization of the two groups by telephone follow-up was carried out six months after discharge. Results The mastering of disease-related knowledge by family members of the observation group was better compared with before health education. The rehospitalization rate of the observation group was 13.3%, which was lower than 44.0% of the control group. Conclusions Health education to family members of patients with chronic heart failure can increase treatment effect of patients, decrease disease relapse and lower rehospitalization rate.

Objective: To establish a laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) cell line through primary cell culture and observe its biological characteristics. Methods: Tissue block culture method was used for primary cell culture. After LSCC cells passed 25 times in vitro, the morphology of cells was observed, keratin was stained histochemically, cell cycle was tested by PI-FACS, and the specie of cells was detected by PCR and short tandem repeat(STR) typing. Results: This newly established LSCC cell line was named as TR-LCC-1, most of the cancer cells were polygonal shape, like the cobblestone, loss of contact inhibition and with overlapping growth. Cell size was large and cell pleomorphism was very obvious. Cytokeratin staining was positive. After 6 months of continuous culture in vitro, the TR-LCC-1 cells passed more than 30 times, and cell doubling time was 201.2h. Cell cycle assay indicated that G1 phase accounted for 51.71%, S phase was 44.56%, and G2 phase was 2.28%. Mycoplasma test showed no mycoplasma contamination. Cell species identification identified TR-LCC-1 was human-derived cells. STR detection showed P26 and P6 were same, and they were different from the STR typing of disclosed cells. Conclusion The establish ment of the new laryngeal squamous carcinoma cell line TR-LCC-1 can be helpful to the research for laryngeal squamous cell cancer.