Showing posts with label medical news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical news. Show all posts

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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