Skin scaffold
American scientists have invented a new type of scaffolding for skin cells to grow on. This is put on after burnt areas of the skin have been cut out. An ultathin layer of the patients skin is then put ontop of this and grows over it . The new skin formed does not scar or cause contractures. Patients with more than 70% of the skin area burnt can now be saved. CMV and heart disease
Heart disease is the biggest killer of South Asians and others and doctors have found a high incidence of a herpes virus infection called CMV. This raises the exciting possibility that immunisation against heart disease may be possible.
Oral Insulin
Insulin injections may soon be a distant memory. A British company Cortec is now in final phase of trials of oral insulin tablets which are just as effective.
Z-trim
In a discovery that could prove the most valuable of all in human health scientists have made fake fat from natural fibre. Called Z trim it will go on sale in America in a few months. It cuts down calories in fat by more than 50% , has no side effects and tastes the same. The effects are going to be amazing !. Nearly 700 calories or one pound of fat loss every five day or 70 pounds -thirty kilos a year could be lost without effort!. Obese people may soon start to shrink away.
Protects from ozone
Dr Sharma at Southampton University has found in trials that antioxidants like Vitamin A , C and E in diet can protect the bronchi of the lungs from ozone - a form of oxygen which protects at high altitudes but is harmful when formed low in pollution, cutting down drastically the need for inhalers in Asthmatics and Bronchitics.
Easy cure for Asthma
Asthma it is thought is caused by allergy to house dust mites which lives on the pillows and is inhaled. Putting the pillow in a freezer for 2 hours a week kills them and stops asthmatic attacks. Research also indicates that putting children on steroid inhalers early can prevent the condition becoming chronic.
Non blood Aids test
Available at Doctors surgeries is a new Aids dipstick urine test. It eliminates the dangers associated with blood tests. News that many people are immune from Aids because their cells lack a protein on the surface which the Aids virus needs to latch on and it may be possible to vaccinate people so that this protein can be blocked in other people.