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Breaking down barriers: How interpreters can enhance patient care

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Melatonin for kids: Is it effective? Is it safe?

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Exploiting a vulnerability in an aggressive leukemia

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Unstoppable: Cairo’s journey for kidney care began even before birth

Tagged: fetal medicine, kidney failure, nephrology, transplant
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From South Africa to Boston: Kyleigh’s four-year search for good heart health

Tagged: cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery, congenital heart defect, heart, heart center, tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect
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Dr. Shwachman uses the sweat test box he invented to diagnose cystic fibrosis

The history of cystic fibrosis diagnosis

In 1955, Dr. Harry Shwachman, head of Boston Children’s Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, developed the first practical sweat test to diagnose cystic fibrosis (CF). It involved encasing the patient’s body in a plastic bag to collect sweat, then using the pictured device to measure levels of salt in the sample. Cystic fibrosis causes sweat to be 2-5 times saltier than average. The sweat test allowed for much simpler and earlier diagnosis of CF, crucial to effective treatment. A version of it is still the main diagnostic tool used today.

 

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