We discussed late last year how the injection of stem cells seems to help heart patients recover. Not because the stem cells are growing and rebuilding the heart. No, they are helping because they are stimulating an immune response that helps the heart recover.
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So, it turns out there’s a side benefit afforded us by the misguided folks (trust me, I have far more delectable terms to deal with these truants) who prevent the protection of the world. By not letting their kids (and themselves?) get vaccinated.
Continue reading How we learn all this new stuff about measles
While we were all sitting down to our Thanksgiving dinner, a pioneer passed away from the complications of an hemorrhagic stroke. Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital), who won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for developing the first living transplant, sharing the honor with Dr. E. Donnal Thomas, who pioneered bone marrow transplants (who died just one month earlier).
Continue reading Au Revoir to a Pioneer