Pneumonochrome

This week, an aspect of medicine that caught my eye was Induced Hypothermia.  The short version is that when someone has a heart attack or a stroke, part of the damage that occurs is due to that person’s cells production of chemicals that tell cells to commit suicide or do other unhealthy behaviors.  Doctors have started cooling people down, a lot, to slow down the production of those chemicals, thus reducing the damage that is caused by them.  People are studying if it helps heart attack and stroke victims, and the data we have right now seems to show us that inducing hypothermia in these patients increases survivability and reduces the severity of other damage associated with these injuries.