Matt Morgan

Has an animal saved your life?

Studying Arctic birds helped resuscitate those suffering from hypothermia.
An ECG on the 150kg heart of a humpback whale has extended the lives of patients with heart failure. 
Understanding giraffes' long necks has led to improved asthma treatment. 

Learning how animals survive and thrive has led to life-saving advances for human health. But we still have a long way to go. Intensive care doctor Matt Morgan looks at why animals can be the key to understanding how our bodies work - and how to fix them when they go wrong. 

How Understanding Animals Can Save Our Lives

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Cassandra Tang

Although poetic in many ways, we now know the first part of the embryo to develop in the womb is the end, or arsehole. Basically you were once just an arsehole. Some people never change.

Just as the swollen knee needs that swelling to heal, life too needs adversity to thrive.

... should focus on harm reduction rather than simple, ineffective messages of 'no'. You can't remove all the puffer fish from the sea just as you cannot remove all the illicit drugs from the world.

Medicine needs to reimagine its unhappy marriage with animals from one of exploitation to one of reciprocity.

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