Short-haired scientists singing...... By and By, there will be pie in the sky when you die...... This sort of happy, tech talk, is standard course in the US. We are all marching forward in progress together! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! The passage below, is precisely the wrong approach to take in combatting these two diseases, CAD and Cancer. It detracts from admitting the environmental causes of these disorders, and then doing something about it. It is a cover up and pitch for governmental monies to be directed into new technology and development, to be used for yet new profiteering in the 'Health Business'. Tony Abdo _______________________________ <Instead of the current one-size-for-all pharmaceuticals, it is possible for drugs to be specifically tailored to fit the unique pattern of genes in an individual patient, McGuffin said. Fixing the problems early: Mutations in the human genome predispose or cause at least 1,500 conditions, ranging from diabetes and asthma to cancer and heart disease. The connection between gene mutation and disease will become much clearer now, experts say. In the future, newborns may be screened for treatable genetic diseases and "children at high risk of coronary artery disease can be identified and treated to prevent changes in their vascular walls during adulthood," thus preventing heart attacks, according to Dr. Leena Peltonen of the University of California at Los Angeles, and Dr. Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. It may now be possible, said Barbara Trask of the Hutchinson Cancer Center for medical science to pinpoint in each patient the genes that have gone awry and caused cancer, and then to design a treatment specifically for that problem.> _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
