Thursday, February 5, 2009

Let the Drinking Begin

Ok.Well, let the drinking continue.
clipped from news.yahoo.com

Doctors test latest attempt at artificial liver

WASHINGTON – There's help for failing kidneys and failing hearts. But there's no fix for a dying liver. Doctors are trying to change that at a few hospitals around the country, testing a machine packed with human liver cells as a last-ditch chance to survive sudden liver failure.

The experiment is the latest in a decades-long quest for an artificial liver, a device that could temporarily take over some of the liver's jobs much like dialysis helps kidneys work and cardiac pumps squeeze a flabby heart.

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