Scientists, using new techniques to tick the immune system into accepting foreign tissue, have cured diabetics in test animals, with type diabetes. Trials have begun with 27 diabetics) we should know within five vears if this treatment will be practical and usable in humans”, says Dr. David Scarp, Associate Professor of Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis Lonely people seem more likely to die of heart disease than do the socially active, according to the largest study yet of social isolation effect on cardiovascular mortality. The study by epidemiologists in Sweden and Baltimore allowed for medical and lifestyle risk factors age, smoking, physical activity and signs of heart disease and found that subjects with few social contacts had a 40% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than the rest did. A new computer to help improve the quality of speech for the deaf is being developed at Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 19, 1987
