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- Animal Stories! , Medical News , Pets And Animals , Uncategorized , World News
- December 28, 2024
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Meet Annie The Therapy Dog Who Delivers Christmas Gifts to Patients at Texas Hospital!
A golden retriever spread Christmas cheer at a hospital in Houston, Texas, footage released on Monday, December 23, shows. This footage by TIRR Memorial Hermann shows Annie, a two-and-a-half year old Golden Retriever, delivering greeting cards to patients at the hospital. TIRR Memorial Hospital said that aside from spreading holiday cheer, Annie and her handler also assist in therapy sessions with patients, many of whom have enduring life-altering conditions, providing “remarkable physical, emotional, and psychological benefits for these patients.” Credit: TIRR Memorial Hermann via Storyful Video transcript She really seems to be tugging, I might push it. Yes, good girl. Let’s go. I Yeah, Annie, jump. Good girl, any sense? I get you. Um Look at a ridiculous picture that I need to take. Super cute. She was sort of done with me by the end of that photo session. Try to work together at least once a week or so. So it’s so nice to see. Good girl, Annie, ready? I think this leg is fine, right? Annie, up, up. Good girl. You can take it from her. You want to help me? You want to get it? Get it from her. Annie, give. Look, it’s, it’s Annie Taya, you see, and it says happy holidays, wishing you the happiest of holidays. Love Annie tear facility dog. She brought you a Christmas card. Yeah, you smile. You were smiling for her. I love it. I love seeing her since being back from her surgery too. Let’s go. Come on.…
- Chicago News , Medical News , Nanotech , Tech News , Uncategorized , World News
- December 26, 2024
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Game-Changing Dual Cancer Therapy Completely Eradicates Tumors Without Harsh Side Effects
Dual Combining phototherapy with chemotherapy may provide a more powerful approach to combat aggressive tumors effectively. Patients with late-stage cancer often have to endure multiple rounds of different types of treatment, which can cause unwanted side effects and may not always help. In hopes of expanding the treatment options for those patients, MIT researchers have designed tiny particles that can be implanted at a tumor site, where they deliver two types of therapy: heat and chemotherapy. This approach could avoid the side effects that often occur when chemotherapy is given intravenously, and the synergistic effect of the two therapies may extend the patient’s lifespan longer than giving one treatment at a time. In a study of mice, the researchers showed that this therapy completely eliminated tumors in most of the animals and significantly prolonged their survival. “One of the examples where this particular technology could be useful is trying to control the growth of really fast-growing tumors,” says Ana Jaklenec, a principal investigator at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. “The goal would be to gain some control over these tumors for patients that don’t really have a lot of options, and this could either prolong their life or at least allow them to have a better quality of life during this period.” Jaklenec is one of the senior authors of the new study, along with Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute, and Robert Langer,…
