{"id":40859,"date":"2022-01-20T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/20\/nepal-hospital-trials-life-changing-treatment-for-leprosy-wounds"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:45:13","slug":"nepal-hospital-trials-life-changing-treatment-for-leprosy-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40859","title":{"rendered":"Nepal hospital trials \u2018life-changing\u2019 treatment for leprosy wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technique using artificial scabs made from a patient\u2019s own blood could also help those with diabetes, say doctors<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at a Nepal hospital trialling a new treatment for skin wounds say the technique, which mimics the scabbing process, has \u201cenormous potential\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trials at the mountaintop Anandaban leprosy hospital, south of Kathmandu, have been promising, bringing hope to patients worldwide. It is hoped that the treatment will also help millions living with diabetes, who have an increased risk of amputation. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/20\/nepal-hospital-trials-life-changing-treatment-for-leprosy-wounds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technique using artificial scabs made from a patient\u2019s own blood could also help those with diabetes, say doctorsDoctors at a Nepal hospital trialling a new treatment for skin wounds say the technique, which mimics the scabbing process, has \u201cenormous p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40859\/revisions\/40860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}