The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year to treat 50 people.
It's a procedure nearly identical to plasma donation except they use a larger volume that requires a replacement fluid. In this instance they'd replace with normal saline with albumin, which is a protein that's important for maintaining intravascular volume among other things.
Plasma donation will accomplish the same objective, but it takes about 4-5 donations to remove the same amount of plasma as an exchange would.
Tragic to see the crazed promethean spirit possessing scientists to push forward without a single inkling of the negative consequences. Perhaps Icarus' fate is our inescapable destiny.
Though a bunch did start getting treated for when they got doused in PFAS fire retardants.
I don't know, kind of makes sense to me why that would be the case. Something tells me there are more places that start with "York" as opposed to "Jersey", so there are more chances to cause confusion in the former case.
Are blood banks testing for levels of PFASs?
How does one test blood for PFASs?
Interesting that the bloodletting is so expensive. I wonder what makes it so?
It does seem awfully high. Donating blood costs way less. Maybe the treatment they're saying the cost for is the drug rather than the bloodletting?
Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123477
230 points by wirelesspotat on April 22, 2022 | 208 comments