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by Dr. Stephen Parker (Article selection and Commentary) on March 29, 2010
Even under high magnification, new drug benefits are vanishing By the end of the 20th century, modern medicine was fending off 190,000 deaths a year from otherwise fatal heart conditions. Funding poured into cardiovascular research, more than doubling from $3.8b in 1995 to $8.4b in 2005. Now from this richly oxygenated drug pipeline, two new [...]
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by Dr. Stephen Parker (Article selection and Commentary) on March 24, 2010
From Dr. James Black, Nobel laureate and inventor of beta-blockers Rather than looking at the heart as if it were a simple pump, Sir James suggests we look at it as something infinitely complex, like a river. “A river,” he said, “is a chaotic nonlinear dynamical system that nevertheless regularly, reliably, and adaptably fulfills its function of [...]
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