"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
I've added two sites to the links at left. Lagniappe, by a medicinal chemist, provides an insider's view of drug development. He has good posts this week on Picovir, the cold remedy that was shot down by the FDA, and about Bristol-Meyers-Squibb's unsuccessful attempt to best Vasotec.
The other site is by biomedical researcher Charles Murtaugh. He mixes in a lot of politics and news with his insights on biomedical research. This week he has a good post on Leon Kass and his views of biomedicine.
