Posted on 01/08/2005 5:04:56 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
Scientists are developing a pill to stop people suffering heart attacks and strokes. The drug would be taken regularly by middle-aged men and women to prevent their arteries clogging up or developing fatal blockages in later life. A project led by Professor John Martin of University College, London, is designed to tackle the world's heart disease crisis and stems from a 10-year collaboration between Finnish, German, Italian and British researchers.
'Heart disease is the developed world's number one killer and even in the developing world it kills more people than malaria or Aids,' said Martin. 'We need to take urgent preventative action. Our pill - which will be ready for use in 10 years - will do just that.'
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
It would be cool, but it would also reveal other currently masked problems.
People really should be doing the things that we already know are good for your heart. If a pill makes the heart disease go away, what other problems will emerge in their place in the patients who otherwise would have had the heart issues?
Isn't this why so many doctors are telling people to take 81 mg aspirin each day?
until they find that the side effect from the pill will kill you in other ways......not skeptical except as I alluded to in another post, I was disabled by doctors who put me on a med I didn't need and when taken off too suddenly it shocked my whole central nervous system and adrenals and every other system and it took me 3 years to recover and rehabilitate.............I don't trust the drug companies whatsoever
Just take this pill... 10 years later they'll report this pill causes heart attacks cancer stroke etc.
The vultures will never rest until aspirin is dethroned.
I asked a doctor one time what he thought of vitamins, and he said, "They are a waste of time if you have a good diet." I thought to myself, well DUH, if we all ate the perfect foods all the time, of course we wouldn't need vitamins....
Scary....
LOL, OP! Actually, if you read this in entirety, you'll see they are operating off an interesting premise....one that aspirin isn't likely to help with. In any case, it's interesting....
Drug companies are only interested in drugs that they can patent.
They don't even care if they actually work or not, as long as they can patent and sell them.
Scarier that I don't do either....take vitamin, or eat right!
LOL....I believe it.
"Good health" bump.
Good vitamins are pretty cheap. I started taking one a day some years ago. Figured it wouldn't hurt, since I don't eat the perfect foods.
I guess if you take this pill then you can take Vioxx again.
Excuse me, I lost it for a minute there. Anyway, after I had my three incidents, all in one week, I started taking one pill to drive my blood pressure down to normal, and another to lower my bad cholesterol and raise my good one. I've been healthy as a horse since that challenging week.
F.Y.I.
Congressman Billybob
Did you see the article the other day about CRP, C-Reactive Protein?
Asprin has already been invented. Take a regular 325 mg asprin every other day. It could save your life, especially if you are a fatty at high risk. I guess asprin isn't expensive enough, so they need to invent another magic pill that does the same thing. Taking a magic pill is after all, alot easier than getting off the couch and keeping fit and eating a balanced diet. Yes, you CAN eat anything and everything, in moderation.
It will probably cause arthritis.
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