ANIMALS
Tiger in Hungarian zoo treated with own stem cells for pain relief
09:39 April 23, 2018 Reuters
A Siberian tiger in a Hungarian zoo received a stem cell joint treatment on Wednesday (April 18) which doctors hope will help heal his hip and allow him to live happily without needing to be given painkillers. 13-year-old Igor lives in a zoo in the southern Hungarian town of Szeged and has been suffering from pain in his hip joint for years. The treatment, used more widely on humans than animals, treats injured joints with tissue taken from patients' own fat deposits which contains regenerative stem cells, doctors say. These are injected back into the ailing joints.