Would You Buy Tamiflu or Relenza Online?

Do you live by the Boy Scout motto: "Be Prepared"?

Do you feel prepared against the swine flu? I'm not suggesting that you should buy Tamiflu or Relenza on the Internet. Perhaps the thought has crossed your mind. Would you buy any of these drugs from eBay if it were allowed? (eBay has strict rules and you won't find drugs on eBay unless someone has found a way to bypass these rules). Recently, we've seen so many stories about counterfeit drugs. This will only get worse if the demand for these types of antiviral therapies continues to rise among the public and if our ability to screen for counterfeit medications simply doesn't keep up.

Today is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Today (May 12) is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. The The National Fibromyalgia Association’s theme for the 2009 National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day campaign is “Fibromyalgia Affects Everyone." Do you know anyone with fibromyalgia?

Regenerate Cartilage?

If you scrape your knee, your skin grows back. If you damage cartilage, does it grow back? Not usually. Thanks to some advances in nanotechnology, it may be possible to regenerate cartilage. In this image on the right, mesenchymal stem cells are grown on a scaffold of nanofibers. Biomedical researchers are constantly looking at ways to utilize nanotechnology to advance healthcare. The end result in this case may lead to new cartilage that can get transplanted into those areas of wear-and-tear and/or injury. Image source: Technology Review

A Sad Story on CNN

CNN has a tragic story of a U.S. soldier who killed his fellow comrades in Iraq. With all that violence and mental trauma, this person was suffering and was receiving therapy at a stress-relief clinic treatment center. I'm not sure anyone can ever receive enough counseling and therapy for going through actual combat. My heart goes out to the grieving families.