Nano Robots to Fight Cancer.....

[lwien]

How cool is this? : http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/09/specials/build-tomorrow/?domain=www.cnn.com&hpt=hp_c2

Also, if ya haven't seen it, try to watch last nights episode of 60 Minutes. They did a bit on the high cost of cancer medication and exposed that doctors actually get paid a commission by the drug companies when they use their drugs. Also, they did a segment on dog intelligence showing MRI brain scans of dogs. VERY interesting

 

[natural farmer]

Doctors get paid by the drug companies??? Now that's news!

About the nano bots... Has everyone seen Transcendence? You should! Nano bots everywhere!

 

[lwien]

Doctors get paid by the drug companies??? Now that's news!

Laughing at someone's else's ignorance about a subject? What the......??

It was news to me. Color me naive, but I couldn't figure out how drug companies were able to track what prescription were being written so that they could pay doctors a commission.

What was even more interesting was that the story was primarily about doctors NOT prescribing a certain cancer medication because they thought it was wayyyyy over priced and putting cancer patients in peril because they couldn't afford the medication and by doing so and making their outrage public, the drug company ended up cutting the cost of their drug in half.

But the story even gets more interesting than that.

If anyone gets the chance to see this episode, they should. It's on the CBS website.