How pig kidney transplants, as well as hearts, lungs and skin, could save many human lives
The US recently approved clinical trials for pig kidney transplants, opening the door to the potential use of other organs ...
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Visible Heart Laboratories — home of the U’s beating heart
Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...
Canadian 'super pigs' pose billion-dollar threat to US farms | Morning in America
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border. Ryan Brook, ...
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Bird Flu News
New Two-Step Flu Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Pig Model Aug. 9 ... to the nose or mouth could play a critical role in ... Fetal Brain Impacted When Mom Fights Severe Flu: New Mouse Study ...
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First-of-its-kind study on injections of nanoparticles for pregnant non-human primates produces promising results
University of Wisconsin researchers and collaborators recently published a feasibility study that focuses on limiting fetal growth restriction in nonhuman primates through nanoparticle injections of ...
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Inflammation in preschool cystic fibrosis is of mixed phenotype, extends beyond the lung and is differentially modified by CFTR modulators
Background Early-life inflammation has long been recognised as a key pathophysiological process in the evolution of cystic ...
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Opens New Cardiac Imaging Suite Featuring Revolutionary Low-Field MRI, a First for a Pediatric Hospital in the United States
Low-field MRI is a gamechanger for pediatric and fetal imaging, advancing diagnostic and treatment capabilities for children with heart and lung conditions LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children's ...
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Public Health Agency of Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...
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Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell-Secreted Factors May Alter Fetal Lung Liquid Clearance
The neuroendocrine system is most active at birth and may play a role in the transition from fetal to postnatal life, in particular in the lungs' transition from fluid secretion to fluid absorption.
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Lung cancer screening
Lung cancer screening aims to find lung cancer early. This is when there are more treatment options available and there is the best chance of treating it successfully. In the UK, the National ...
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Restoration of cardiopulmonary function with 21% versus 100% oxygen after hypoxaemia in newborn pigs
It has been shown to be a specific and sensitive marker for myocardial damage in both human infants 4 and an experimental model of newborn asphyxiated pigs. 5 In modern neonatal intensive care units, ...
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Guidelines for the Safe Use of Diagnostic Ultrasound
Also, biological effects studies have demonstrated capillary hemorrhaging in vivo in the lungs of several mammalian species (though not humans), as a result of pulsed ultrasound exposures in the range ...