Baldness Tourism Thrives As More Young Men Travel For Hair Transplants In Europe | Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells | COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help

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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Baldness Tourism Thrives As More Young Men Travel For Hair Transplants In Europe    At airports around Europe, particularly those with flights to and from Istanbul, it's not uncommon to see men, their heads freshly shaved - some wearing caps intended to cover red scabs, others wearing forehead bands to prevent postoperative swelling - and all showing the unmistakable signs of recent hair transplant operations. Although clinics offer hair transplants in most major European cities, the undisputed capital of this thriving industry is Istanbul, Turkey’s capital, with hundreds of flights arriving and departing with pre- and post-operation patients at what is now known as 'the hairport'. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells    The human body is a marvellous thing. But like anything built by evolution, it has plenty of flaws. Consider teeth. Whereas sharks grow new teeth throughout their lives, adult humans get one set, which must last 60 years or more. That is tricky. A combination of poverty, sugar-rich diets and poor hygiene means 2.5bn people around the world suffer from tooth decay, in which acid produced by mouth-dwelling bacteria eats away at the hard enamel that coats the outside of a tooth. That can open the door to painful infections, which cause further damage. Once decay has set in, all a dentist can do is fill the gap with an artificial plug—a filling. But in a paper published in Cell, Hannele Ruohola-Baker, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Washington, and her colleagues offer a possible alternative. Stem cells are those that have the capacity to turn themselves into any other type of cell in the body. It may soon be possible, the researchers argue, to use those protean cells to regrow a tooth’s enamel naturally. Continued here COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help    Firefighter and paramedic Mike Camilleri once had no trouble hauling heavy gear up ladders. Now battling long COVID, he gingerly steps onto a treadmill to learn how his heart handles a simple walk. "This is, like, not a tough-guy test so don't fake it," warned Beth Hughes, a physical therapist at Washington University in St. Louis. Somehow, a mild case of COVID-19 set off a chain reaction that eventually left Camilleri with dangerous blood pressure spikes, a heartbeat that raced with slight exertion, and episodes of intense chest pain. Continued here

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