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MICROBES-FRIEND OR FOE? :
Bacteria become resistant to our antibiotics. Viruses evolve with blinding speed. Prions may lurk in our meat. Anthrax is put into our mail. Stranger yet, could microbes be causing other illnesses, like cancers and heart attacks? —
WHO GETS TO VALIDATE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE? :
Throughout history, human beings always have sought to prevent disease, cure illness, reduce pain, and relieve suffering. In recent times, science has made medicine more predictable, increasing success rates and identifying side effects to an unprecedented extent. But challenges to scientific medicine have accelerated in the past 30 years. In this program, the challenged give the challengers one tough time.
TESTING NEW DRUGS-ARE PEOPLE GUINEA PIGS? :
Instituted in the sixties, clinical drug trials today have become a vast and expensive enterprise in which drug companies can spend over $100 million to bring a new molecule to market. FDA procedures are complex and elaborate as they should be, in order to bring new drugs to market quickly to help people in need, but to do good science to protect the public from a drug’s potentially dangerous side effects.

Closer To Truth – Biology & Medicine: Microbes; Testing New Drugs; Alternative Medicine