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The DIY Dialysis Machine

Posted by samzenpus on from the oh-so-cleansing dept.

Millie Kelly was born with a condition that required an immediate operation. During this operation her kidneys started to fail and since she was too small for dialysis machines, doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to live. Luckily for Millie, Dr. Malcolm Coulthard and a colleague tried to build a much smaller kidney machine on their own and they were successful. Her mother said, "It was a green metal box with a few paint marks on it with quite a few wires coming out of it into my daughter - it didn't look like a normal NHS one." The girl was hooked up to the machine over a seven day period to allow her kidneys to recover. Two years later, her mother Rebecca says she is "fit as a fiddle." You should see what Dr. Coulthard can build using a postage stamp, a tuning fork, a lawn chair and a jellyfish.

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  1. Cut the fat, cut the risk. by randyest · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Children of overweight parents are more likely to suffer serious health problems during infancy. Just sayin'.

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    everything in moderation
    1. Re:Cut the fat, cut the risk. by randyest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Before you flame me, yes, I know gastroschisis is usually (but not always) hereditary, but the point stands.

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      everything in moderation
    2. Re:Cut the fat, cut the risk. by sm62704 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Fat people got mod points? The above wasn't flamebait, it was fact.

      That said, my "supersize me" diet hasn't paid off a bit. None of the weight has gone where I wanted it, but at a bar the other day some smartass asked "when is it due?"

      Also, just because children of overweight mothers (the father's weight has nothing to do with the infant's health) often suffer health problems during infany doesn't mean that all do, or that fit women's infants don't. When my oldest was born, my ex-wife wasn't obese, yet Leila had health problems. Evil-X was big as a house when Patty came along, but aside from colic she was healthy.

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      mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  2. Re:this lady need DIY plastic surgery and lyposuct by CogDissident · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hate to feed the trolls here. But if you're going to post a picture, at least have it be of an medium attractive woman.

  3. For that matter... by Illbay · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...you should see what miracles occur when you're not oppressed by an onerous "single-payer" socialist-welfare-state "health" care system like the NHS.

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  4. Re:Wow by freeenix · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Jews are a blockade for a efficient society. They mobilize the activist to against anything pro-government.

    We don't need freedom. Freedom and efficiency are mutually exclusive.

    Look at China. There is no such thing called malpractice liability, and now many of the inventions are coming up in China. There is no such thing similar to the DMCA in China, and things like Real-Time packet replication technology are being invented in China.

  5. Re:Wow by paanta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right, which is why none of the great medical devices of the last 100 years have come from the United States. Oh, wait...

  6. Re:WTF? by couchslug · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Rant mode on:

    Better yet, don't post pictures at all. That's why we have LINKS.

    If we wanted pictures cluttering up Slashdot we'd ask for them, and the pic in question isn't informative or interesting. If we wanted some housecow and her brat we'd go to an appropriate site.

    This is a techy audience, not a herd of hambeasts looking for human interest fappery in a supermarket tabloid.

    My apologies to any hambeasts reading this, but I AM an insensitive clod.

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  7. Re:Ugly guys shouldn't comment on appearance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Aren't you special? Are you the father of the fat little piggy that was saved?