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Any stimulation might be useful, Frostig speculates. “If you see a stroke victim, I would sing, I would stroke their face, I would do whatever I can. It can save lives or minimize risks,” Frostig said. If further studies show similar benefits in humans, such a cheap and powerful method to minimize stroke damage may one day lead to a card, much like a CPR instruction card, telling people how to stimulate stroke victims’ senses immediately after the stroke, Barnes says. Only eight people getting anacetrapib — compared with 28 in the placebo group, which was the same size — needed to undergo coronary revascularization during the trial, in which doctors surgically reopen or bypass a blocked artery to restore blood flow to the heart. “We’re very encouraged by this,” Cannon said. If you were to find yourself in the jungle without a mosquito net, slathering yourself in snot might be a good alternative. It works for fish: Scientists have discovered that some coral reef fish protect themselves from biting isopods, a marine equivalent of mosquitoes, by covering themselves in mucus before going to sleep at night. Researchers had speculated that the reason certain parrot fish and wrasses envelop themselves each night with a big blob of mucus might be to protect against settling silt or to deter hungry predators such as moray eels. But definitive experiments were lacking. Now scientists from the University of Queensland in Australia have done the dirty work. The team http://newacnescartreatment.org This is new treatment to old problem placed parrot fish in plastic tubs and after midnight, when all the fish had made their mucus cocoons, the researchers gently scraped off the cocoons from half the fishes. Then the team introduced tiny parasitic isopods — blood-sucking crustaceans that are taxonomically closer to lice than to mosquitoes — into the tubs.
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