Polymers in Medicine
from the yes,-yes,-we're-becoming-Polymerdirt.com dept
No, I don’t know why were suddenly being inundated with polymer-based stories, but they are interesting. This one is about polymers in medicine. That’s right, you soon may be taking plastic medicine. Once again, I await comment from Techdirt’s resident polymer chemist…
Comments on “Polymers in Medicine”
Yep, these are all potentially cool...
Polymers are neat, aren’t they? But chemists aren’t pharmacologists. Aspirin seems to be a safe drug now, but if aspirin had been discovered yesterday, it probably wouldn’t make it through the FDA approval process. So it might actually take a long time for ‘platic drugs’ to be commercial. And in the end, it’s probably cheaper to just put aspirin in a gel capsule…
Yep, these are all potentially cool...
Aspirin was discovered nearly 2 centuries ago… more likely 2 millenium ago
It was based on extracts from the willow tree amongst other sources