Wearable Artificial Kidney Could Replace Conventional Dialysis

A wearable artificial kidney could be developed as a viable, new dialysis technology that allows patients to be mobile and untethered during treatment, results of a US Food and Drug Administration-authorised clinical trial suggest.

The technology may become an alternative to conventional hemodialysis for people with end-stage kidney disease.

Present-day treatment generally requires three sessions a week on a stationary machine that restricts patients' ability to walk around while it is attached and running.

In contrast, a wearable device would allow patients to be mobile and untethered. It could also provide additional treatment benefits from longer sessions or more frequent days of dialysis.

The trial of a prototype for such a device was performed with seven patients at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Those leading the trial included the inventor of the device, Wearable Artificial Kidney prototype, Victor Gura of Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles-read more

hitler not only child.

a historian -florian kotonko- is claiming that the death of a younger brother -otto -from hydrocephalus  may not have affected him.it has long  been thought that hitler was 4th in 6 child to his mother -3 died .but records from beaunau an inn was 3rd child to be born ,so his mental devolopment of hitler due to being only surving child may not be tenable .also the austrian government  has taken control of house were he was born to prevent becoming a neo-nazi shrine and could eventally be turned into a museum to honour nazi victims.

will i lose me?

recently dear reader i have being having trouble with my memory and even sometimes become over vacant .i went to see my local quack who did the standard test but after a chat with my wife has referred me to an memory assessment clinic after blood test .why worry as most of the internet info says some minor memory lose is common after  50  well its due to my dear departed dad who had similar problems and started to get dementia before his death .i dont wish to lose me and i  hope i dont .

the electric ant, also known as the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata,coming soon

experts fear an invasion from this asian ant which may come in from imported plants .these ants can chew through electricity cables,causing blackouts and fires  and their bite is very painful and resistant to poison.

From the archive, 3 December 1986: How Elvis won his anti-drugs badge from Nixon

Elvis Presley bitterly denounced the Beatles for their anti-Americanism during a White House meeting with President Nixon in December, 1970.

The rock and roll star, who died of longterm drug abuse in 1977, also told the President that he could influence the hippie movement against the use of drugs and asked to be made a federal drug enforcement agent. Eventually he was given a specially-made Bureau of Narcotics badge.

A note of the encounter is one of 1.5 million documents from Mr Nixon's Presidential papers, finally made public by the National Archivist in Washington. The former President has fought tenaciously for the past 12 years to prevent their appearance, citing everything from executive privilege to personal privacy. Now he has been overruled by the combined judgments of Congress, the Supreme -read more

Britain's first plastic banknote revealed - What do you think?

Britain's first plastic banknote featuring Sir Winston Churchill will, like the great stateman's reputation, "stand the test of time", the Governor of the Bank of England has said.read more

lead ingot found by novice

a novice treasure hunter found a -2 ft long ..84 lb block -known as a pig on a farm in wells,somerset .it could be worth a lot of money as dated back to about 164 ad and has a stamped on it -emperor marcus aurelius ,romans mined lead then cast in blocks then sent them to rome.