Word: armamentarium
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...nudge. "We do need to change. Something needs to be done differently," says Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. "We have a lot of new insight, and we need to have a whole new collection of drugs, a new armamentarium...
...medicine is simply the refinement and repackaging of ancient remedies. Digitalis from foxglove. Opiates from poppies. Aspirin from the bark of willow trees. Even now, nearly 60% of the best-selling prescription drugs in America's pharmacies are based on compounds taken directly from Mother Nature's well-stocked armamentarium. It's as if there were a bright, healing thread running from the medicine bags of shamans and witch doctors to today's drugs for cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease...
...million Americans suffering from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity, doctors in the clinical trenches felt they had no choice but to employ the best weapons at their disposal. Says Dr. Sophia Vinogradov, Barondes' UCSF colleague and a specialist in schizophrenia: "We now have a much more vigorous armamentarium for our patients...
...armamentarium will soon grow. No fewer than 103 new psychoactive drugs are currently undergoing testing, including clinical trials, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. These include 26 drugs for depression, a disease that affects 19 million Americans each year and costs the country more than $23 billion in lost work days and decreased productivity. Other drugs in the pipeline target schizophrenia, anxiety phobias and various forms of senile dementia, most notably Alzheimer's. All told, drug companies are betting $6 billion a year on R. and D. in hopes of creating new blockbuster drugs like Eli Lilly...
...medicine is simply the refinement and repackaging of ancient remedies. Digitalis from foxglove. Opiates from poppies. Aspirin from the bark of willow trees. Even now, nearly 60% of the best-selling prescription drugs in America's pharmacies are based on compounds taken directly from Mother Nature's well-stocked armamentarium. It's as if there were a bright, healing thread running from the medicine bags of shamans and witch doctors to today's drugs for cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease...