A Russian woman injected with pig cells four weeks ago has not needed the regular insulin injections she had relied on to keep her type 1 diabetes in check. A second patient, a Russian medical student, has seen his insulin injections cut by 40 per cent in the four months since receiving the pig cell transplant. Melbourne scientists have been conducting the trial in Moscow's SklifasovskyHospital because animal-to-human transplants have been banned in Australia... Читать дальше »
Американские учёные из Университета Джорджии сообщили о разработке уникального наногенератора, который, используя ультразвуковые волны, сможет вырабатывать электрический ток из практически любой биологической жидкости.
Когда в австралийском госпитале кончились запасы медицинского спирта, итальянского туриста, поступившего с отравлением этиленгликолем пришлось спасать водкой. Доктор Паскаль Гальперович вышел из ситуации, назначив пациенту капельное введение водки через желудочный зонд.
Обнаружены новые свойства чеснока, в частности, его расслабляющее влияние на сосудистую стенку путем выделения hydrogen sulfide (H2S) при взаимодействии некоторых веществ, находящихся в чесноке, с эритроцитами.
Из интервью с Шадом: When you decided to start training for marathons, what did your doctors say?
Well, the medical consensus was it could not be done—ever. No dialysis
patient could finish an Ironman. You know, the Ironman consists of a
2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and then a 26.2-mile run. Given the
type of symptoms and things that come along with this diagnosis, it was
rather impossible. I mean, I had been on dialysis for 20 years, had no
athletic background, literally weighed 100 pounds. My biceps were the
size of a half dollar. And here I was saying that I was going to do an
Ironman. In less than 12 months, I gained 42 pounds of muscle, and I
got down to 6 percent body fat, and took on one of the most grueling
events in the world of sports. Полностью интервью здесь.
