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This Tiny Submarine Cruises Inside A Stomach To Deliver Drugs (No Raquel Welch)
NPR ^ | January 29, 2017 | MADELINE K. SOFIA

Posted on 01/30/2017 12:03:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix

A tiny self-propelled drug-delivery device might someday make taking antibiotics safer and more efficient. Think of it as a tiny submarine scooting around inside your stomach, fueled by the acid there.

Oral antibiotics are commonly prescribed life-saving drugs. Once an antibiotic is swallowed, it takes a trip to the stomach, where there's lots of acid. That stomach acid can break chemical bonds in the antibiotic and deactivate it.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: health; medicine
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To: PJ-Comix
No Raquel??

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21 posted on 01/30/2017 1:54:15 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: PJ-Comix

I thought that was last night’s enchiladas scooting around.


22 posted on 01/30/2017 2:18:55 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ETL

G-G-G-G-NOT GUILTY!!


23 posted on 01/30/2017 2:56:18 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Fantastic Voyage 2: The Battle Begins in Ernest!


24 posted on 01/30/2017 2:59:21 PM PST by Rastus
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25 posted on 01/30/2017 3:14:55 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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Bob Hope's 1967 Christmas show

Bear Cat base camp, S. Vietnam, December, 1967; John Olson - Stars and Stripes

Related image
Bob Hope dances with actress Raquel Welch during his 1967 Christmas tour of U.S. bases in the Far East. Among the other performers on the tour were singer Barbara McNair and Miss World, Madeline Hartog Bel.
http://www.stripes.com/photoday/welch/pages/welch_hope01.html
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FOXNEWS.COM HOME: YOUR WORLD W/ NEIL CAVUTO
Transcript: American Beauty
August 12, 2005

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: When you think of Hollywood legends or at least when I think of Hollywood legends, my next guest really comes to mind. She's a Golden Globe winner, she's a Broadway star, and did I mention, she is — oh gosh — she is a knockout. On Saturday [August 13, 2005], actress Raquel Welch will be honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America for entertaining the troops with Bob Hope back in 1968.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165586,00.html

26 posted on 01/30/2017 3:15:05 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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Whew! I hope my blood pressure can handle this! :-)


27 posted on 01/31/2017 7:08:41 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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