Electric currents can help wounds heal faster

The Hindustan Times | July 27, 2006 | Copyright

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London, July 27 -- The idea of deliberately subjecting yourself to a session of electric shocks may make you cringe, but as a new study has found, it just may be worthwhile if you're injured, for it speeds up the healing process.

Though first suggested by German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond 150 years ago, this healing method had been ignored. Now, Josef Penninger of the Austrian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna and Min Zhao of the University of Aberdeen, UK, have added their support to the ...

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