Cast of the Right Bronchial Tree

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A man coughed up a blood clot in the exact shape of his lung.

Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, were left stunned when a 36-year-old patient with advanced heart failure coughed up a massive blood clot – perfectly shaped like the branching airways of his right lung.

The man’s heart condition was so severe that he was placed on a ventricular assist device to help pump blood. To prevent clots from forming in the machine, he was on powerful blood thinners – but these also increased his risk of internal bleeding. Over several days, he had occasional coughing fits that brought up small amounts of blood.

Then, during an extreme bout of coughing, something extraordinary happened: he expelled an intact “cast” of the right bronchial tree – a nearly flawless mold of the lung’s airway passages, made entirely of clotted blood.

While patients sometimes cough up bronchial casts made of mucus or lymph, casts made purely of blood are almost unheard of. Blood is too fragile to hold such a complex structure together – but doctors believe that in this case, a lung infection raised the man’s fibrinogen levels, a clot-forming protein, making the clot sturdy enough to stay intact.

Sadly, the patient died a week later from complications of heart failure. But the case, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, is now a rare teaching example into the hidden architecture of the human lung.

 

This drug can turn your blood into mosquito poison


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Nitisinone is a pharmaceutical drug derived from a toxin naturally found in the Australian bottlebrush plant. Nitisinone kills even insecticide-resistant mosquitoes

 

My theory is that all the "treatment" is doing is warming up the olfactory tissue and therefore making it more sensitive to perform its function.

Having radio waves beamed into our head ramps up our sense of smell


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The scientists first recruited 28 people with no smell issues. For 5 minutes, these participants were exposed to 15 watts of power, emitted from a 5-centimetre square antenna attached to a mount located 10 cm from their head. “The stimulation itself is not directly perceived by the patient,” says Jang. “However, if the stimulation continues for some time, some individuals may experience a mild warming sensation at the site of stimulation.”

 

Australia sunscreen scandal grows as more products pulled off shelves

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A sunscreen scandal in Australia is continuing to grow, with 18 products now pulled from shelves in the skin cancer hotspot over safety concerns.
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One product, Ultra Violette's Lean Screen Skinscreen, is supposed to offer a skin protection factor (SPF) of 50+ but instead returned a result of SPF 4 and was voluntarily recalled in August.

 

World’s first bone glue debuts, enabling 3-minute fracture repair with one single injection.
https://thechinaacademy.org/china-invents-bone-glue-inspired-by-oysters-to-repair-fractures/

 

World’s first bone glue debuts, enabling 3-minute fracture repair with one single injection.
https://thechinaacademy.org/china-invents-bone-glue-inspired-by-oysters-to-repair-fractures/

"3-minute fracture repair" seems like an over-claim to me ... since the bone needs to repair itself by displacing the glue during the re-forming process, if I'm not mistaken ... but it will bring significant benefits in the next few years, hopefully.

 

Not terribly surprised as they've been using surgical glues for some time now. They used it on me when they removed my cancerous kidney. Most was done laparoscopically but they had to "open" me up to remove the kidney. Under stitched the musculature and glued the skin flap down to leave minimal scarring. Which I ruined by being one of the very few of Mayo's patients to develop a surgical site abscessed infection which had to be opened up, packed, and drained leaving a substantial scar.

Having injectable glue for spinal fractures will be a real benefit and anything to speed up bone knitting in older folks is far better than having to wear casts for many months.

 

https://www.techspot.com/news/109676-samsung-galaxy-ring-swells-crushes-user-finger-causing.html

Samsung Galaxy Ring swells and crushes user's finger, causing missed flight and hospital visit

 

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Reveals Expert

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Based on our past 30 years of research, we no longer think of Alzheimer's as primarily a disease of the brain. Rather, we believe that Alzheimer's is principally a disorder of the immune system within the brain.

 

New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours

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Instead of trying to sneak drugs into the brain, researchers in China and Spain are trying to make it easier for amyloid-beta to get out of the brain.

 

Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again


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A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye.

A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London says the results of the international trial are "astounding".

 

GLP-1 microdosers are chasing longevity


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There is some research to suggest GLP-1s can promote healthy aging by improving overall health. The drugs have been found to reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, lower risks of major cardiovascular problems, lower cancer risk and more. Such findings have prompted scientists to study the drugs as potential treatments for illnesses as diverse as Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis. Some experts have even wondered whether the drugs’ systemic effects might slow cellular aging and prevent age-related chronic conditions, potentially making them the first true longevity drugs to hit the market.

 

I still remember back in the 70's when L-DOPA (levorotatory-Dopamine amino acid precursor) was to be the "New Mega Miracle Drug". Was even given it for high blood pressure in the 80's (didn't work too well). Don't hear anything about it these days other than for Parkinson's... Interesting to note that Alzheimer's may be linked to immunosuppression. I missed that back then, but I have also been on Enbrel for Psoriatic Arthritis by my Immunologist for several years before being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I'll have to ask him about that the next time I see him.

 

Marriage Linked to Lower Cancer Risk In Study of 4 Million Cases


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A team from the University of Miami found that incidence rates of cancer were 68 percent higher in never-married men and 85 percent higher in never-married women

 

Increase in adult diapers raises recycling challengesーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS

 

Increase in adult diapers raises recycling challengesーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS

So, not only don't the kids leave home, they wear diapers, too?

 

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial


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The day before she was supposed to start chemotherapy, her doctors told her about a clinical trial exploring the use of personalized messenger RNA vaccines for cancer. It was February 2020 — months before mRNA vaccines for Covid would become one of the world’s hottest commodities. Very soon after, Gustafson was the first person to get one for pancreatic cancer.

 

This is impressive, this guy was practically at death's doorstep! ... I'm glad he's recovered:

Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’

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The Jurassic Park actor made the announcement on Australian broadcaster 7News while advocating for CAR T-cell therapy – a form of cancer immunotherapy which he underwent as part of a clinical trial – to be rolled out for blood cancer patients across Australia.

Neill first revealed that he was being treated for stage-three angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in his 2023 memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This? When the book was published, the actor was taking a new chemotherapy drug monthly to keep the cancer at bay, telling the Guardian: “I’m not afraid to die, but it would annoy me.”

 

Can sunlight cure disease?

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She tried out the device and gave them some pointers: make it smaller and easier to hold because Multiple Sclerosis often makes your hands go numb, and build in timed reminders to overcome the cog fog. Then, to her surprise, she found that her fatigue disappeared a few months after she started using it.

 

After new drug’s ‘unprecedented’ results for pancreatic cancer, doctors look at other uses

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Every single patient with advanced pancreatic cancer who walked into Dr. Zev Wainberg’s office told him they would rather take an experimental medication than endure another round of chemotherapy.