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A UK surgeon is using golden orb-web spider silk to help damaged nerves heal across gaps too large for the body to repair on its own. The natural material acts as a scaffold that lasts 150 days instead of just 10, potentially eliminating the need for painful donor nerve grafts.
Kanika Tekriwal was given days to live at 21 when diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Seventeen years later, the Shark Tank India judge just invested in a company making the pain relief treatment she desperately needed during chemotherapy.
Doctors are adapting treatment methods to help people battling opioid addiction in the fentanyl era, with 67% of clinicians successfully modifying their approaches. Despite new challenges, a lifesaving medication continues to work when providers adjust their protocols.