DISPENSARY CORNER 13 April 16
April 13, 2016
Research so often seems to
drag at what seems like a snail’s
pace, but in this case that may
produce breakthrough pain
relief for millions, according to
scientists at the University of
Queensland.
School of Biomedical Sciences
researcher Dr Richard Clark said
marine snail venom was a well known
and promising source of
new pain drugs, but substantial
hurdles had restrained progress,
until now.
The sea snail uses
its venom to immobilise prey
and protect itself, said Clark, and
now “we’ve been able to shrink
a particular conotoxin to its
minimum necessary components
for the pain relief properties to
continue to work.”
TURKMENISTAN'S somewhat
eccentric president Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedov has ordered the
country’s population to exercise
as part of a month-long official
healthy living campaign.
According to Vienna-based news
website chrono-tm.org, activities
include mandatory group exercise
routines by public servants and
students, along with communal
jogging and bicycle riding.
State television has been
broadcasting footage of officials
exercising en masse outside their
offices, while some reports cite
orders for all institutions to send
staff to running events.
The government’s website says
the annual “Month of Health and
Happiness” forms part of the
president’s “wise and far-sighted
policy to keep citizens healthy”.
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