Drug makes hearts repair themselves

[kpete]

Source: BBC


Drug makes hearts repair themselves
By James Gallagher
Health reporter, BBC News


A drug that makes hearts repair themselves has been used in research on mice.

The damage caused by a heart attack had previously been considered permanent.

But a study http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10188.html in the journal Nature showed the drug, thymosin beta 4, if used in advance of a heart attack, was able to "prime" the heart for repair.

The British Heart Foundation described repair as the "holy grail of heart research", but said any treatment in humans was years away.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13699711

[Poll_Blind]

1. Will modern science finally help stamp out Sad Country Song-itis in our lifetime?

We can only hope.

PB

[Demeter]

2. I doubt it

You can tell the world you never was my girl
You can burn my clothes when I'm gone
Or you can tell your friends just what a fool I've been
And laugh and joke about me on the phone

You can tell my arms to go back onto the phone
You can tell my feet to hit the floor
Or you can tell my lilps to tell my fingertips
They won't be reaching out for you no more

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
Ooo

You can tell your ma I moved to Arkansas
Or you can tell your dog to bite my leg
Or tell your brother Cliff who's fist can tell my lips
He never really liked me anyway

Oh tell your Aunt Louise, tell anything you please
Myself already knows that I'm okay
Oh you can tell my eyes to watch out for my mind
It might be walking out on me today

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
Ooo

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
Ooo

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
Ooo

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Oh, goddess, that is bad, isn't it?

I've never actually seen the words. :hide:

[Poll_Blind]

5. .

:rofl:

PB

[madmax]

15. Loll Nt

[AndyTiedye]

8. That Will Only Happen When

they legalize pot.

[KansDem]

3. "...if used in advance of a heart attack,"

So you have to take this drug before you have a heart attack?

[ronnie624]

11. The potential for pharmaceutical industry profits is huge.

We wouldn't want to jeopardize that with talk of healthy food and moderate exercise.

[Occulus]

13. Which isn't enough if you already know you're prone to heart attacks

via, say, family history.

A drug that could save lives, and here you are prating some conspiracy.

[ronnie624]

14. Twaddle.

Even with a genetic propensity for heart disease, a healthy diet and moderate exercise reduces heart attack risk dramatically.

As for your last sentence: WTF?

[nyy1998]

6. Very interesting nt

[JJW]

7. Will this cost an arm & a leg

Very likely can't afford it.

[saras]

9. I like the attitude. It doesn't help you heal, it MAKES your heart HEAL ITSELF

Gotta lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. Can't be counting on no doctors or hospitals to be healing you.

[lovuian]

10. OMG lookee Britain has socialized Medicine

isn't that amazing

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked but too late to recommend.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.