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...scientific tour de force, Florey, Chain and their colleagues rapidly purified penicillin in sufficient quantity to perform the experiment that Fleming could not: successfully treating mice that had been given lethal doses of bacteria. Within a year, their results were published in a seminal paper in the Lancet. As the world took notice, they swiftly demonstrated that injections of penicillin caused miraculous recoveries in patients with a variety of infections...
...comes word of new hope in the form of an old prescription drug. In a study of 2,647 patients in the Jan. 2 issue of Lancet, researchers found that treating folks who have mild to moderate heart failure with medications called beta-blockers lowered their risk of death 34% over 15 months compared to patients who did not take the drugs. A yet unpublished study that was presented last November at a meeting of the American Heart Association reached a similar conclusion...
Blood simple! The FDA last week okayed Lasette, a portable laser device that enables diabetics to draw blood easily, with little or no pain. Many patients test their blood-glucose levels every day--in some cases 10 times--by pricking their skin with a razor-sharp steel lancet. By contrast Lasette sends a beam of light that vaporizes skin and creates a tiny hole so quickly--30 millionths of a second--it's barely felt. Cost...
Sources: Nature Medicine; PACE, FDA; Circulation; Lancet...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; The Lancet; Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition