| Vanderbilt Burn Expertise To Assist Federal Battlefield Injuries Project
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of three clinical sites testing new products to replace burned skin as part of a massive federal grant program announced Thursday. The collaborative effort is expected to boost treatment options for soldiers injured in war zones.
The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) consists of two academic groups, or consortiums, working with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research to use the science of regenerative medicine to develop new treatments for wounded soldiers.
Regenerative medicine is science that takes advantage of the body's natural healing powers to restore or replace damaged tissue and organs.
One consortium is co-led by the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the other by Rutgers and the Cleveland Clinic.
Stormmy Paul: businessman, smuggler, 'renegade Indian'
Stormmy Paul's home clings to the eastern edge of the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Smoke from his weekly campfire drifts over the reservation's border with Marysville, across the imaginary place on the road where drivers suddenly realize they've left one world for another.
On Wednesday afternoons, Stormmy, a Tulalip Indian, piles black lava rocks in the center of a fire pit and coaxes kindling into hot flames. He gathers the rocks himself from the slopes around Mount St. Helens.
As the rocks start glowing red, cars pull up Stormmy's driveway. Soon, a group of men huddles around the fire. All but one are white.
They've come to sweat in a lodge Stormmy built years ago out of twisted vine maple.
They've come to spend time with Stormmy, the Indian.
Spring reveal: Prime legs, feet for sandals, shorts season
The snow has finally melted, and soon it'll be time to pull out those flirty skirts, shorts and sandals. Get ready, because your legs and feet will soon be out for everyone to see. Caring for your legs and feet is key to having a well-groomed look in the spring and summer. Sometimes, women neglect to maintain them during the winter months, says Kathy Joerin, a beauty professional at JOLI Salon in St. Clair Shores. "I hear all the time, 'I haven't shaved my legs all winter long,' " she says. .
'Brain damage risk' with chemotherapy drug
A chemotherapy drug used to treat thousands of cancer patients could cause serious brain damage with effects that are felt for years, research suggests today. Sunbed ban for under-eighteens to cut cancer riskThe drug, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), which is one of the most commonly prescribed anti-cancer medicines, is used for tumours of the breast, ovary, colon, stomach, skin, pancreas and bladder. .
Bioteam Spa & Beauty Opens Branch In Putrajaya
PUTRAJAYA, April 24 (Bernama) -- Bioteam Spa and Beauty Sdn Bhd, a fully Bumiputera owned and Malay traditions based beauty chain today opened its "Bioteam Spa and Beauty" centre at the Putrajaya Perdana Building in Precint 16, here. Its managing director, Datin Faridah Mohamad said treatments at the spa involved 100 percent herbal extracts researched and developed by the company itself. "Our products have not only gone through the process of high quality control but their purity is also assured as we belief that is beauty is not only skin deep but starts from within. "Therefore, the spa treatments we offer our clients not include techniques for maintaining physical beauty but also the daily care that have to be followed and the diets to be observed," Faridah told Bernama when met at the centre today.
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