Dolphins' 'remarkable' recovery from injury offers important insights for human healing
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
A dolphin's ability to heal quickly from a shark bite with apparent indifference to pain, resistance to infection, hemorrhage protection, and near-restoration of normal body contour might provide insights for the care of human injuries, according to experts. Researchers interviewed dolphin handlers/marine biologists, and reviewed the limited literature about dolphin healing to offer some new observations.