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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by Ovah on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:56AM (#27106610)
"A full 40 percent of the drugs behind the pharmacist’s counter in the Western world are derived from plants that people have used for centuries, including the top 20 best selling prescription drugs in the United States today. For example, quinine extracted from the bark of the South American cinchona tree (Cinchona calisaya) relieves malaria, and licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) has been an ingredient in cough drops for more than 3,500 years." https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/medicinal/inde...
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by rmah on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:34AM (#27107168)
A full 100% of the drugs sold today are manufactured using only ingredients found in nature! <sarcasm>
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by Ovah on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:00PM (#27107499)
(I'm aware of the sarcasm tag). Technically that 100% should be 99.999%. Not all drugs are found in nature. Technetium, a man-made compound, is used in some radiology. https://go.drugbank.com/categories/DBCAT001978
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by LeifCarrotson on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:17PM (#27107679)
No, technetium is still a natural product, it just takes a little processing. An organic miner dug up some raw uranium ore, then someone refined it, irradiated it, and isolated the resulting molybdenum-99, and finally a radiologist extracts the all-natural technetium from the decay process of that molybdenum.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by qwertywert_ on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:46PM (#27110061)
Natural = found in nature.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:40AM (#27118643)
It is found in nature, it just has a slightly different number of protons when it's raw.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by qwertywert_ on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:21PM (#27124337)
I know what you mean, but it's just the definition of natural at least on our "earth". If you find some technetium somewhere let me know.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by simplify on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:46PM (#27111804)
You can argue that, and I might agree with it, but it's not regulated as such.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by Consultant32452 on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:45AM (#27107316)
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death. We like to imagine we’ve come a long way from treating ghosts in your blood with cocaine, but we haven’t.

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139

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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by gowld on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:13PM (#27107633)
That's a very misleading summary. "Leading causes of death could be prevented by more perfect medical response" is a better summary.
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Re:Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor by teh_infallible on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:25PM (#27109780)
“Leading causes of death” being medical incompetence, which is the third largest cause of death in the US
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