Free Republic 4th Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $25,929
32%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 32%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: sharkboy

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • (U.K.) Doctors Use Shark Skin Grafts To Treat Burned Terror Suspect

    07/24/2007 12:27:21 PM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 59 replies · 1,353+ views
    thisislondon.co.uk ^ | 24.07.07 | thisislondon.co.uk
    Doctors use shark skin grafts to treat burned terror suspect 24.07.07 Surgeons treating the terror suspect burned in the Glasgow Airport car bomb attempt are going to use "grafts" of a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cow tendons. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is being treated at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The process is called Integra Dermal Regeneration Template. "It tricks the body into creating new skin cells," explained Steve Jeffrey, a surgeon who worked in Australia perfecting the treatment. Silicone implanted with shark skin extracts is laid on the burns for two weeks before it is removed and replaced...