Sydney medical dean apologises to relatives for misuse of body parts

When to refer to a pain clinic - PMRI - Sydney Medical School - University of Sydney

This chapter addresses the questions of which patients might profitably be referred to pain clinics, as well as when this should happen for the optimum results. Since there are many different types of pain clinic, the question of to which pain clinic should a patient be referred is also examined. The development of multidisciplinary pain clinics and the types of services (assessment and treatme...

The Path to Printed Body Parts

For patients in need of an organ transplant, the odds are bleak. Only around 30,000 people got transplants in the U.S. last year, while more than 8,000 died waiting, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. In the U.S., 120,000 people are on the waitlist for organs; China’s list contains 1.5 million names. The World Health Organization estimates that the black market created by this s...

Regeneration of Mammalian Body Parts

Miracle mice When, in 1994, Dr Ellen Heber-Katz of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia was monitoring marked mice in a group that she used as experimental animals in connection with her research on multiple sclerosis, she received a surprise. The marked mice could not be found! They had punch holes in the ears for identification, and at first it seemed as though a mistake had been made, for no...

Attentional biases for faces and body parts

In four experiments, we examined whether faces and body parts are processed faster and engage attention more than other objects. Participants searched for a green among blue frames and were asked to make speeded categorical decisions on an object presented within the target frame (e.g., was it food?). On half of the trials a colour singleton (a red frame) was also present and reaction times to ...

Commercial renal transplantation-- body parts for sale.