anaklio
03-13-2009, 04:51 PM
Diabetes is often associated with retinal damage. This damage results from inflammation. The new coumarin derivative cloricromene attenuates the degree of inflammation preserving the blood-retinal barrier in diabetic rats (Buculo et al., 2009).
skatss
03-19-2009, 08:26 AM
Too many times medical news items come out and give us great hopes on a new medication. Most of these drugs are still in the process of being tested and won't be useful to human diabetics for years.
Are they telling us that this new drug can help those of us who need it now or will soon need it? Or is it yet another drug that will be useful to our children's children?
Personally I don't find these bits of medical news announcements about great drugs help me in my way. I read these articles and get excited that they will help, only to see that there are many years of testing ahead before they will be available to be bought or used by anyone.
Does anyone here think that these early early announcements of great drugs are of any real good to us in the here and how? I don't think that it helps anyone to hear about something that won't be around to help for decades. I find I get too depressed that the drugs aren't available to be used right away!
I wish that they wouldn't make any announcements about great drugs unless the new drug can help my problem right now!
anaklio
03-23-2009, 07:18 PM
I understand your frustration. Cures for common diseases often seem close, yet they rarely appear.
It's important, however, to recognize how science works. These drugs need to be tested thoroughly and slowly. Otherwise, they may not be safe.
And it is impossible to suppress information in our current society. That, too, is a good thing. It's likely that somewhere in an obscure journal a product you're using right now has been shown to be dangerous. Someone needs to find that gem, and promote it for all of us.
It takes a large pointy strainer to sort through this mass of information. This forum is one such strainer :-)