Amazing New Liver
This is amazing news for Liver Patients. Scientists have come up with a way to filter the blood in an external device in a way that mimics the human liver. It's still in the experimental stage, but in an early trial in China, out of 45 patients who weren't expected to live past 60 days, 20 were still alive 1 year later. Now, a 55% mortality rate might not sound very successful, but the other 44% would beg to differ. There is currently no FDA approved Liver replacement therapy, so those people and many more would be dead without this technology.
This is where Dialysis technology was in the 1940s. Read about the washing machine used for the first dialysis machine here and look where we are now.
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