"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
UK angina patients are being offered a novel treatment - vibrating trousers.
The treatment, called Enhanced External Counterpulsation or EECP, works by increasing blood flow to the heart.
Long inflatable cuffs, like those used to measure blood pressure, are wrapped around the patient's calves, thighs and buttocks.
....When the heart is resting the cuffs inflate and then deflate again just before each heart beat.
The sequential inflation and deflation of the cuffs increases blood flow to the heart and encourages tiny new blood vessels to grow around the blocked arteries to feed the heart.
