The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year to treat 50 people.
Isn't it a little bit expensive just for a blood letting? Basically it should be like a blood donation where you can directly throw the extracted blood. No?
I didn't see the actual procedure mentioned by name, but they're likely talking about therapeutic plasma exchange.
It's a procedure nearly identical to plasma donation except they use a larger volume that requires a replacement fluid. In this instance they'd replace with normal saline with albumin, which is a protein that's important for maintaining intravascular volume among other things.
Plasma donation will accomplish the same objective, but it takes about 4-5 donations to remove the same amount of plasma as an exchange would.
Synthetic chemistry has overall been a disaster for humanity, particularly since chemists employed the hacker ethos of "move fast and break things". Except in this case the things they broke were other people's bodies and the environment.
Tragic to see the crazed promethean spirit possessing scientists to push forward without a single inkling of the negative consequences. Perhaps Icarus' fate is our inescapable destiny.
All this concern about PFAs is reminding me of artificial blood made with perfluorinated chemicals. It would have utterly enormous quantities of the chemicals, circulating as a microemulsion throughout the body.
And you just know there are probably a bunch of ex military privates (who are probably currently being denied care) who were just drenched in the stuff to see if they could run harder faster stronger :’(
It looks like this is for the actual island Jersey, and not New Jersey. I was pretty confused at first. People here on the East Coast call the state "Jersey" as often as we call it "New Jersey". Which is interesting now that I think of it, nobody EVER calls New York just "York".
> Which is interesting now that I think of it, nobody EVER calls New York just "York".
I don't know, kind of makes sense to me why that would be the case. Something tells me there are more places that start with "York" as opposed to "Jersey", so there are more chances to cause confusion in the former case.
I'm more interested in why it never caught on regionally. There would rarely ever be any confusion, nobody in the states would think you were talking about York England. But it still never caught on for whatever reason.
When feasible, spoken English favours double syllable combinations. Three is too many, one is too few for disambiguation in a lossy environment. Hence Jersey, LA, San Fran, Philly, but not York. It’s not a hard rule, of course.
Or if you're upstate and going to one of the boroughs, you'll generally refer to it by name. "I'm going to Brooklyn / Queens / the Bronx", not "I'm going to the city" or "I'm going to New York City".
Cholestyramine is a bile binder, and while it can help with some PFAS, it won't be as effective as blood removal. For most of us, the solution is regular blood donations and Organic psyllium husk powder which too is a bile binder.
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