The latest "Statins Beat Heart Attack" headlines would be wryly funny if they weren’t so tragic.
Short sighted journalists are fooled by profit-hungry drug companies who, as often seems to be the case, are driving partisan research chemists.
"Statins Reduce Heart Attacks"
This is not news, and it is not even surprising. Anything which reduces general inflammation [...]
Entries from November 2008
Statins - Don’t Be Fooled By The Research
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Drugs, Heart disease, statins
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Live A Long Life - Swallow A Nanobot
November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Cutting edge medicine, Surgery
Living a long life will be much easier as we develop ‘nanobots’ with the ability to travel within our bodies. These will be programmed to carry out various tasks.
Nanobot Tasks
Some of these will be:
Delivering drugs to precise locations - for example, direct to disease locations, rather than in the blood stream. Treatment [...]
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