mercedo's Journal: Elixir

Recently we've got many new reports from phermaceutical companies, research institutes, universities that the medicines once prescribed for other ailments to be found drastically effective to other diseases.

For example, antibiotic paramomycin, once used for intestinal parasites now for visceral leishmaniasis, this has been done by OneWorld Health. Statins, once used for correcting cholesterol, is now being started to cure for neurofibromatosis(NF1) that is genetic based learning disabilities, conducted by UCLA.

Another example. Viagra(sildenafil) is now found to be effective to the patients of pulmonary arterial hypertension, distributed by Pfizer.

We need a lot of fund to develop new medicines, but to find out other diseases that could be cureable by existing drugs are, obviously less costly although they need a lot of clinical trials.

It might be before soon for us to find an elixir for life. It came to be not imaginary dream.

medicines can never truly be an elixir of life..

[kesuki]

because for all they can treat, nothing they do is beyond what normal healthy bodies can do already...

truly to produce an elixer of life one would need something that goes beyond the repairs the body can do on it's own. nanobots who can repair nural gateways, that can replace and repair protien strands, a true elixir of life, would involve an army of robots, repairing your body 24/7 365, ordering custom protiens, and nutrients from a supply pack that is automatically refilled on demand... machines that ca

Re:medicines can never truly be an elixir of life.

[mercedo]

Good medicines are very effective to the disease with no significant side effects, of course there's no medicines with no side effect, but in this respect, I must say Viagra and Tamiflu are good medicines. One particular medicine has been developed for the treatment of only targetted ailment usually, but as many researchers have been trying to find other diseases that are curable by the existing drugs, those drugs are apt to be prescribed more and more for many other different cases. Elixir of life might be

Viagra.. Backwards

[Allen Zadr]

Viagra was initially developed to alleviate hypertension, but the initial test group found themselves with a heightened sex drive. Pfizer took that to the bank.

Re:Viagra.. Backwards

[mercedo]

Oh, I see, there are other drugs that are initially developed as sedutives, and later used alternately. This is also one of the signs we live in the age of stress.