Archive: 29/03/2018
For young patients, a hospital stay is fun and games thanks to child life specialists
When a ten-year-old girl arrived at Kentucky Children's Hospital for a routine appendectomy, she fired off a series of anxious questions. Would she be able to feel the surgery? Will it hurt? What if she woke up in the middle ...
Mar 29, 2018
The microenvironment of diabetic retinopathy supports lymphatic neovascularization
"We asked whether proliferative diabetic retinopathy involves the growth of new lymphatic vessels in addition to blood vessels – and, indeed, we found expression of lymphatic markers in the PDR tissues." The new study, ...
Mar 29, 2018
Suicides rise as years-long war grinds down South Sudanese
By the time her 19-year-old son was shot in front of her, Ayak had already lost her four brothers and witnessed countless deaths in South Sudan's brutal war.
Mar 29, 2018