Fibrosis is a harmful build-up of excessive fibrous tissue that results in scarring, and ultimately, the loss of organ function. Although it can affect any tissue and organ system, it is most common in the heart, liver, lung, peritoneum, and kidney. The fibrotic scar tissue consists of extra-cellular matrix proteins, such as type I collagen, proteoglycans and fibronectin...
Plastic surgery seems to make people look about 8.9 years younger than their actual age, researchers from the University of Toronto and NorthShore University Health System reported in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Jeremy P. Warner, M.D., and team set out to determine how much younger esthetic facial surgical procedures made people look, in order to measure surgical success...
A recent study by the Translational Genomic Research Institute (TGen), published in the online journal mBio, reveals that a strain of MRSA, a bacterium which is untreatable by the use of antibiotics, is now not only found in livestock, but also in humans...