"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
Healing Hearts: In an experimental procedure, doctors are healing dead heart tissue with immature skeletal muscle cells. Now that's exciting, although it isn't at all certain that having the new tissue improves the heart's function:
For now, all researchers can say for sure is that the transferred cells take root and flourish in dead areas of the heart. Whether they make the heart pump more forcefully remains to be seen, although researchers say they see encouraging evidence this may happen.
If they do prove successful, this would certainly be one of the greatest breakthroughs in medicine.
