Dispensary Corner 18 May 12
May 18, 2012
WE’VE heard of fish oil
supplements, but this is ridiculous.
The Alaska Seafood Marketing
Institute has this week unveiled
the world’s largest king salmon - a
129-foot monster.
It’s not actually a live salmon,
but rather a fish-themed design
on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737
aircraft - now described as a
“Salmon-Thirty-Seven”, which
aims to highilght the airline’s role
in transporting Alaska seafood,”
keeping it fresh all the way from
the cold northern waters to the
tables of US diners are quite
complicated.
AN 83-year-old man has donated
a kidney to a stranger - because
he was now too old to give blood.
Nicholas Crace is the oldest of
nearly 100 people to have given a
kidney in an “altruistic donation”
in the UK, since rules were
changed in 2007 to allow the
procedures to be undertaken on
people other than relatives.
A former charity director, Crace
has already donated blood 57
times, and said he decided to give
his kidney after the death of his
wife last year when he found he
had more time for voluntary work.
“I’ve had an easy, comfortable
life...I thought it was about time I
paid back some of my good
fortune,” he said.
BREAKTHROUGH research
published this week has found
that dinosaurs suffered from
arthritis, just like humans.
Scientists from Bristol University
studied the fossil of an 8m-long
pliosaurus and say they found
evidence of a degenerative
condition in its jaw.
Dr Judyth Sassoon said “in the
same way that aging humans
develop arthritic hips, this old
lady developed an arthritic jaw”.
She said that although the
dinosaur had survived with the
condition for some time,
eventually the jaw weakened and
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