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…it costs bzillions to research a new drug and carry it through to approval…

Why, that’s simply terrible! I wonder why it’s so expensive?

…blame…the regulatory state for getting in the way…

Question answered.

You can look a long, long time for a govt regulation that did not have as its genesis a way to thwart potential competitors to established institutions of one kind or another. As for the pharmaceutical world’s regulations, patient safety came second.

Why does only one person have a nose in that strip?
Is that some fecal transplant joke?

I just find it hard to believe our politicians (by this I mean both yours and ours) aren’t involved in this!

They are, by and large, experts on creating laws for useless (other ruder word for poop goes here) most of which they pull out of their own (other ruder word for butt goes here).

Perhaps this being useful poo, they can’t quite figure out what to do with it.

Why were you taking that class?

Anyway, all that will happen, if the heavy hand of the FDA imposes regulation, is that sufferers will simply cross the border to pharmacias and injectorias in Mexico to have stranger’s turds shoved up their hinders.

Good lord, I hope there’s no such thing as typing and cross matching for this. Fecal banks. Dookie drives for the American Brown Cross. Won’t you give today?

I dont believe it. It seems that people who suffer from these illnesses are the juicers, weird diets, new age sorts, obsessed with their poop. I think it is all in their head.

Funny you should say that, Monty. There is a poop bank and you are not the first person to refer to it as the Brown Cross. Congrats.

I’m taking the class because I really wanted to be a doctor. Then I learned you had to take hard things like math and, you know, chemistry. It turns out, I’m awfully lazy and a bit stupid.

It does cost the earth to research a new drug. I participated in a breast cancer drug trial underwritten by the U.S. Department of Defense. Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio was one of the centers chosen to conduct the trial and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. It was a five year commitment—I was enrolled from 2011 to 2016—and I will never know if I got the drug or the placebo. It was a series of inoculations with follow-up blood test to see if my body was making antibodies.

The DoD put up the money because a lot of the people who work for the Dod are females, and DoD thought it was a good investment in the future of their work force. I agree 🙂

I work at a hospital that is the leading researcher for fecal transplant. Ummmmm, I have pooped for science. As a healthcare worker at a major teaching/research hospital, I participate in a lot of studies. In fact, I’m a highly sought after subject. O-, CMV -. And as a healthcare professional, I’ve been exposed to one of every thing. For all I know, the lady cured of c-diff might have been cured by MY poop!

I recall reading an article and watching the video of one of the professors at Caltech talking about curing clinical depression by altering gut flora.

Isnt this how HIV/Aids got started?

I dont believe it. It seems that people who suffer from these illnesses are the juicers, weird diets, new age sorts, obsessed with their poop. I think it is all in their head.

Not at all. One of the, if not the, most common causes of C. difficile colitis is use of an antibiotic to treat another infection which kills off the good flora that normally would inhibit colonization by C. difficile. Other causes include chemotherapy and other immunosuppressants that have the same effect. C. difficile colitis is not benign and can lead to such treats as intestinal perforations, peritonits, and even death in more extreme cases.

As far as transmitting disease via a transplant goes, the risk is minimal if done by professionals as the donors and their, ahem, transplant material, are screened for the presence of pathogens (as Armybrat pointed out) and if present, rejected as being suitable.

Regarding the drug companies, they will be getting in on the act. Researchers at MIT hand other places have shown that transplantation of normal flora via a capsule is both viable, and readily accepted by patients.

Sounds crazy don’t it.
Then again the old claims about vampires being reinvigorated by the blood of, well, virgins (which presumes on the whole a certain level of youth) sounds dodgy.
Then damned if someone doesn’t do a study transfusing young people’s blood into old people and starts claiming the old people were re-invigorated.

Or – here, let me stick this goop from a cowpox lesion into your hand.

Go figure.
They discovered all of this without CO2 climate warming computer models!

Whats next? You all going to have poop parties and swap poop?? 😛

Clostridium, if I recall my readings of Berton Rouche’s tales of medical detection aright, is the genus that also contains such charming visitors as botulism and tetanus. It’s one of the few surviving anaerobic bacteria — by which the scientistas mean that it is actually poisoned by oxygen and grows best in oxygen-free conditions, not that it refuses to jog or do Pilates.

And that cleans me all up (phrase chosen most carefully) with Clostridium.

Again, I have to wonder why it takes so long to ID victims in the UK. There was no explosion yet people were looking for their loved ones for days before notified that they were murdered. Granted, the young guy from Spain who came to the aid of a young woman being stabbed – his body was found in the Thames and that would account for the delay.

This whole thing sucks big time and I want to see some major stomping of terrorist ass. I want to visit the UK again but I’m old and have a bad back. I cant out run a bastard with a knife or a SUV. 🙁

And with all the stabbing and shootings in London that is youth gang related, Khan needs to shut his lying mouth.

She used a relative’s poop, Armybrat, but your…errr…contribution to medical science is noted. You might find the article interesting, as to the differences between their procedures and yours.

She was instructed to bring her donor poop in a brand new blender, so medical staff would have a minimum of handling!

Stay out of the cities, Ric Fan, and you’ll be fine. The contrast between urban and rural here couldn’t be more stark.

Science. It gets you coming and going.

Ric Fan “Again, I have to wonder why it takes so long to ID victims in the UK.”

The police often know the identities but they do not normally release the names until the next-of-kin have been informed and they have been formally identified by relatives or close associates.

In the case of the latest London incident, it was made more difficult because only one of the 8 victims was British. There were 3 Australians, 3 French, 1 Canadian and 1 Spaniard. Three of them were tourists.

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