Sunday, July 2, 2017
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Healing With Fish Skins
An excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -
Fish Skin for Human Wounds: Iceland’s Pioneering Treatment
The FDA-approved skin substitute reduces inflammation and transforms chronic wounds into acute injuries.
By Lois Parshley
The materials in fish skin, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, yield natural anti-inflammatory effects that speed healing. When placed on wounds, the product, made from dried and processed fish skin, works as an extracellular matrix, a group of proteins and starches that plays a crucial role in recovery. In a healthy person, a matrix surrounds cells and binds them to tissue, generating the growth of new epidermis. But in chronic wounds, this natural structure fails to form. So like a garden trellis, the fish skin provides the body’s own cells a structure to grow around so they can form healthy tissue, gradually becoming incorporated into the closing wound.
Some six and a half million Americans suffer from chronic wounds, whether related to vascular disease, diabetes, or complications from normal procedures. The five-year survival rate is 54 percent, compared with 88 percent for breast cancer, and treatments cost more than $25 billion a year. That total is steadily rising, in part because of a graying population. But precisely because many patients suffering from such wounds tend to be old, and many are also poor, they don’t get much attention.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-27/fish-skin-may-be-the-answer-to-chronic-wounds
Fish Skin for Human Wounds: Iceland’s Pioneering Treatment
The FDA-approved skin substitute reduces inflammation and transforms chronic wounds into acute injuries.
By Lois Parshley
The materials in fish skin, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, yield natural anti-inflammatory effects that speed healing. When placed on wounds, the product, made from dried and processed fish skin, works as an extracellular matrix, a group of proteins and starches that plays a crucial role in recovery. In a healthy person, a matrix surrounds cells and binds them to tissue, generating the growth of new epidermis. But in chronic wounds, this natural structure fails to form. So like a garden trellis, the fish skin provides the body’s own cells a structure to grow around so they can form healthy tissue, gradually becoming incorporated into the closing wound.
Some six and a half million Americans suffer from chronic wounds, whether related to vascular disease, diabetes, or complications from normal procedures. The five-year survival rate is 54 percent, compared with 88 percent for breast cancer, and treatments cost more than $25 billion a year. That total is steadily rising, in part because of a graying population. But precisely because many patients suffering from such wounds tend to be old, and many are also poor, they don’t get much attention.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-27/fish-skin-may-be-the-answer-to-chronic-wounds
Friday, June 30, 2017
What Respecting Women Looks Like
From the Huffington Post -
Obama Photographer Reminds Us What A President Who Respects Women Looks Like
Pete Souza, FTW.
By Jenavieve Hatch
Former White House photographer Pete Souza has made wonderful use of his Instagram account during the Trump Administration, subtly uploading photos from his days with President Barack Obama in response to some of President Trump’s most outlandish moments.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-photographer-reminds-us-what-a-president-who-respects-women-looks-like_us_59565258e4b0da2c7322eed1?0dp&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Obama Photographer Reminds Us What A President Who Respects Women Looks Like
Pete Souza, FTW.
By Jenavieve Hatch
Former White House photographer Pete Souza has made wonderful use of his Instagram account during the Trump Administration, subtly uploading photos from his days with President Barack Obama in response to some of President Trump’s most outlandish moments.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-photographer-reminds-us-what-a-president-who-respects-women-looks-like_us_59565258e4b0da2c7322eed1?0dp&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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