Archive for January, 2007
Shh..ilpa!
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Jade. Shh...e's toast!Congratulations NHS Blog Doctor
Friday, January 19th, 2007Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit
Friday, January 19th, 2007Still powerful.
Strong stuff.
Cancer - is DCA a breakthrough?
Friday, January 19th, 2007
The New Scientist is hopeful:
It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.
Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.
UH OH! Big Pharma wont be happy......... it has no patent!
It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.
Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.
UH OH! Big Pharma wont be happy......... it has no patent!