Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

M  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/i00NgHL9wzo   Today’s newly announced medical discoveries that point to future therapy: Microspheres improve female fertility Promising new therapy for MRSA infections Nanoparticles as long-term disinfectants Your nose could fix your knee Shirts that monitor your heart   Some women cannot conceive because the walls of their uteruses are too thin to permit embryo attachment.  Chinese investigators report a new technique for wall thickening using microsphere sprays of hyaluronic acid and vascular endothelial growth factor.  They show in a mouse model that these droplets trigger uterine wall thickening.  Not ready yet for prime time use in humans but very promising.   MRSA, methicillin-resistant staph aureus, is a formidable organism that triggers severe and life-threatening infections that often cannot be treated with conventional antibiotics.  Cornell University veterinarians show in a horse model that mesenchymal stem cells produce secretions that throttle MRSA bacterial growth.