Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Short Short Medical Reports are the cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic, but I want you to know about them now.   Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/7wKrhWX2MUM   Cleaning surfaces at home using common commercial disinfectants may release dangerous levels of volatile organic compounds into the air you breathe.  Engineers at Indiana University remind you to ventilate the rooms where you use these compounds.   https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.abj9156   Pharmaceutical companies and diabetes researchers are taking human stem cells and, in effect, training them to produce insulin as do our own pancreatic islet cells.  These home-grown islet cells can be infused into the body, protected with immunosuppression, and produce insulin on demand.  One Ohio diabetic is now living with these cells and no longer requires insulin injections.   https://www.jci.org/articles/view/158305   Ketamine, the drug commonly used for general anesthesia, is being repurposed for other