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A Spanish team of the Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona has announced the first transplant have achieved total world face. Victim of trauma of the face affecting the nose, nasal cavities, the upper and lower jaws, the ethmoid sinus area, lips and soft tissues of the face, the receiver could not breathe through the nose or mouth unattended or speak. He had been operated nine times without success before a transplant is considered complete.

A technical feat:
The operation was to graft the whole skin and muscles of the face, nose, lips, palate, all teeth, cheeks and lower jaw by surgical techniques and reconstructive micro-neurovascular surgery plastic.The graft included not only the skin but also the soft tissue, facial muscles, arteries and veins. Nearly 24 hours of operation and 30 professionals made contributions to the graft! The recipient has asked to look in the mirror one week after the operation. He “reacted calmly, satisfaction, and says he was very grateful,” he said at a press conference, Dr. Joan Pere Barret.

This is the first transplant performed total face the world, the other ten have been previously carried out only partial. Four were conducted by the team of Professor Laurent Lantieri CHU Henri Mondor (AP-HP), Creteil, we were talking about, remember: read export face transplant , read the Registry of the face and hands , read third face transplant . Another success in the field of reconstruction, hope that the immunosuppressive therapy necessary not to reject the graft is well tolerated by the patient and he gets the faster mobility and sensation.

Already on sale on the Internet and soon in pharmacies, Narcocheck will attract parents wonder whether their teenager smokes marijuana . As simple and no bigger than a pregnancy test, just dip the tool in the urine to determine what level of consumption. Reflecting the growing concern of parents about the use of cannabis, which rises in France, the sale of the first test that can gauge the strength of cannabis in the urine is already a success, as the U.S. or countries Anglo-Saxon and Nordic countries.

Its principle is simple: mix qualitative and quantitative of pseudo-tetra-hydro-cannabinol or THC is the psychoactive substance in cannabis.3 levels of impregnation are detectable in the urine. Also note that the police use this test to guide toxicological research (verified by a blood test) when a roadside check. (It’s lived in emergencies)

Most psychologists and toxicologists are hostile youth must indeed be willing to be tested, do not drift into a requirement for parents who violate the privacy of the teen. What you need to understand is that screening is not synonymous with identifying the withdrawal and consumption is only the first step toward care. Lire la suite du billet » In addition, young people often practice polydrug use and the use of cannabis may be only the tip of the iceberg.

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Following recent events have called into question with schizophrenia, the results of the study researchers from the University of Montreal offers a new approach to the causes of disease and a step toward treatment. Researchers have discovered that certain genetic mutations may predispose individuals to schizophrenia, raising the coup some light on this complex illness.

The results show that genetic mutations in the gene Shank3 are the source of a substantial number of cases of schizophrenia. Our analysis combined with extensive review of data from a large number of patients led us to this discovery, “said Dr. Guy Rouleau, one of the authors of the study, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, but also director of the Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine and researcher at the CHUM Research Centre. A defective gene, many diseases of the brain.

Previous research had already established a link between autism and this gene Shank3, for his part said Julie Gauthier, UdeM, lead author of the study. The recent work in the medical field tend to think there is a genetic link between these two diseases that are neurodevelopmental autism and schizophrenia, there is the chance that the gene plays a role in Shank3 other brain diseases.

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