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Wound
Synthetic platelets halve blood clotting time
By Darren Quick
21:54 December 20, 2009 PST
Blood clotting is a complex cascade of events that works well for normal cuts and scrapes, however, more serious injuries can overwhelm the body’s natural blood-clotting process. With traumatic injury the leading cause of death for people aged 4 to 44, a team of researchers has sought a way to enhance the natural blood-clotting process by creating synthetic platelets that show promise in halting internal and external bleeding. Read More
Dissolving wound dressing could vastly improve treatment for burns victims
By Jeff Salton
22:15 November 23, 2009 PST
In today’s environment of advanced medical treatments where high success rates are achieved in amazingly delicate operations that until recently weren’t thought possible, a staggering 70 percent of people with severe burns still die from related infections. It is hoped that a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University (TAU) could cut that number dramatically. Read More
Mr Stiffy
- February 9, 2010 @ 06:26 UTC
