Socialized medicine develops worlds first artifical bodypart

[Mugsy]

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A joint effort between British and Swedish medical research develops the worlds first artificial body parts using plastic molds coated in stem cells.

Once again, a government-run socialized health care systems disprove the myth that "profit-driven" medicine spurs innovation and medical breakthroughs.

"Profit-driven" medicine gets you "a better diet pill" or the next baldness cure, not medical breakthroughs for which there is no commercial market.

[Speck Tater]

1. False teeth, peg legs, knee and hip joints, heart valves... A jillion artificial body parts

already exist. This is nowhere near "the world's first artificial body part."

[Mugsy]

5. Confused

Sorry, you're wrong.

What you are describing are "prosthesis", not "body parts".

[Speck Tater]

10. OK. Restrict my list to hip joints, knee joints, heart valves, artificial hearts

ant other "parts" implanted permanently into the body, and not simply worn as appliances. This is still not "the first" artificial body part.

[JDPriestly]

12. This is the first that becomes a biological, not just mechanical,

part of the human host's body. That's the difference. This part becomes tied somehow to the body's cell structure.

The artificial hip remains a foreign object in the host body. Same with the other artificial body parts we have known until now.

Didn't you hear the explanation about dipping the part in the cells of the donor or something like that? Did I misunderstand? I thought that is what I heard.

[Speck Tater]

13. I agree completely with the article. I merely pointed out that the TITLE was inaccurate and untrue.

[Dokkie]

8. I think hes talking about

soft tissue here

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Not "body part". The word is "organ".

This is not a static artificial replacement piece, like a false tooth or artificial hip. This is an organ which duplicate that organic function of the organ it replaces.

Much more complex. And an astounding achievement.

[Ian David]

3. I want to keep an artificial windpipe in my nightstand. n/t

[murphyj87]

4. Canada has more research per capita than the US

http://www.canadianmedicinenews.com/2007/11/canadas-greatest-medical-research.html

[xocet]

6. K & R n/t

[robinlynne]

7. right on! I knew about the body part, but didn't stop to think about where it was created.

[dotymed]

9. Ok, but what about

penile implants and viagra? Tell me a "socialist" country would invent those...,and boob jobs and butt implants, etc...

:sarcasm: ........................................,:patriot:

[WhoIsNumberNone]

11. K&R

[slipslidingaway]

14. Kick n/t