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- WordsnCollision, on 06/14/2009, -11/+320On the bright side, she'll never get any older.
- AnonBuffalo, on 06/14/2009, -2/+167how you never met a woman before?
- thoughtsonthis, on 06/14/2009, -6/+139She was 22 and she was worried about aging?
- Aliwalla, on 06/14/2009, -4/+64Dripping in irony.
- pinguz, on 06/14/2009, -12/+66well technically it did stop her aging
- mrpunman, on 06/14/2009, -3/+43Oh dear god if I digg you any harder I would break my mouse
- thcobbs, on 06/14/2009, -2/+41bury him once so you can digg him twice.
- ligyron, on 06/14/2009, -2/+37Thank you for saying what everyone was thinking after reading the title
- vsujohn2, on 06/14/2009, -2/+28You just won the internet
- vsujohn2, on 06/14/2009, -1/+25She should have shopped at Forever 21
- robertisaar, on 06/14/2009, -0/+23maybe she wanted to stay (or at least look) 22 forever?
- LonelyTylenoL, on 06/14/2009, -9/+31/irony
- argagarg, on 06/14/2009, -0/+21She has chosen.... poorly...
- AndrewRidgely, on 06/14/2009, -2/+21The article mentions that although the death was 2 years ago, the details are just becoming publicly known now.
- maliath, on 06/14/2009, -1/+18When an injecting unlicensed medication I ALWAYS bring my epinephrine pin and a bottle of benadryl!
- NikoKun, on 06/14/2009, -0/+15Maybe it kills 50% of the people who use it... Only the other 50% get immortality. lol Imagine a world where THAT happens..
- smdn2000, on 06/14/2009, -9/+24Ultimate cure for aging..
- marijndegens, on 06/14/2009, -3/+17It worked!
- g7gij, on 06/14/2009, -2/+16Clinical Drug trials are a very lenghtly and expensive process. Several $300 millon to develop one to market over 10 years
The big issue with some of the drugs in development is that they are biological in nature rather than chemical.
The problem lies with predicability of the allergic response to a biological material, such as humanised monoclonal antibody.
Witness the clinical trial of TGN1412, apparently safe for animals but caused a deadly allergic reaction in humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412
Pharmacologist work with what's called a dose response curve, to calculate just the right amount of drug to dose
to give a therapeutic effect. Theres lots of other calculations on body weight age, sex ect carried out.
A a dose response is on the whole predictable with small molecules and peptides, but seemingly less predictable with biological materials when administered to humans.
Most drugs that go into clinical trials end up failing anyhow, due to a less serious adverse reactions The pharmaceutical industry its a very costly and risky business.
The woman that administered the drug to her sister will have to live with the fact she killed her for the rest of her life. - 1ofMany, on 06/14/2009, -1/+12The "Male Stars Pose Nude" ad/pic to the right of the story makes it hard for me to take this seriously.
- H4n90fThur5D4y5, on 06/14/2009, -1/+11"The Medicines and Health care products Regulatory Authority confiscated supplies of the drug following Mrs Cox's death, but the body is expected to return supplies to the company so it can continue its research."
On the people who are still alive! - darzeecompany, on 06/14/2009, -3/+13This was a triumph.
- falconear, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10Oooo...philosophy thought experiment. Damn, that's one for class. It kills 50% of the people that take it, the other 50% live forever. So let's say the entire population takes it. Assume 6 billion people (yeah, it's closer to 7, but just sayin') take it: 3 billion will die off the bat, so the population will be pushed back to 1960 levels, so we'd have 50 years or so until the population was back to current levels. UNLESS immortals don't have children or something. What other conditions are we assuming or implying here?
Sorry, I love this kind of stuff. :) Now, would I take it if I had a choice? Maybe if I was old enough... - ElGubrush, on 06/14/2009, -1/+11read the ***** article
- itsbob, on 06/14/2009, -0/+9Ask you doctor if death is right for you
- dcherryholmes, on 06/14/2009, -0/+9Man, I don't know what I would do if given that proposition. 50/50? Well it's 100% certain that old age will get you anyway, so wagering a handful of decades vs..... what? Another few centuries? Forever? Obviously, things like whether or not you have a family dependent on you and other such things would factor in. But if it could truly be shown that you had an even chance at living forever, I might consider spinning the chamber and pulling the trigger. Food for thought, anyway.
- novalux, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8Did she age in reverse and die a horrible anti-birth?
- Wesside, on 06/14/2009, -1/+9She was also a doctor herself, and no one here has questioned that, jackass.
- CanadaMan87, on 06/14/2009, -3/+10No, stop right there. We'll have none of that silly business.
- Aliwalla, on 06/14/2009, -4/+11On another note, her husband had a masters degree in bio chemistry from Oxford? Clearly not one of their better departments.
- AraleNorimaki, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6We all have to live with our disappointments ... I have to sleep with mine.
- blueocean87, on 06/14/2009, -2/+8Yes... that drug really worked...
- GrimReeper, on 06/14/2009, -2/+8She probably got the idea watching oprah when a fake doctor was on and decided not to ask her husband because oprah wouldn't steer her wrong =P
- DouglasQ, on 06/14/2009, -1/+7She was 22 for 10 years and wanted it to stay that way.
- Necoras, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5It sounds like she was taking it as a potential treatment for diabetes, not its anti-aging effects.
- Protonz, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5I'm glad no charges were pressed. There was no victim here, all parties were voluntarily experimenting on themselves.
Obligatory "these comments suck". - Qumahlin, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Well if your going to try to stop aging, i'd assume doing it while your young would be the time...I would want to look how I did in my twenties...not my forties.
- m0n0kr0m3, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Does she get a Darwin award for this? This seems Epic Fail....
- thcobbs, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Come on... who doesn't have one of these: http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/emergency_zombie ...
- crackedlogic, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5now you know what you have to do lad, burn the house down!
- bobbi21, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5I find it unfortunate how often good drugs are shelved cus of bad reactions in like 0.1% of ppl. I would try to research ways to figure out WHY those 0.1% of ppl reacted badly and then avoid prescribing it to those ppl. You got a drug that cures like stage IV cancer in 99% of ppl but kills 1% instantly. If you dont' have the drug everyone dies but a 1% lethality is probably way to much for the FDA to pass. Kinda unfortunate.
- anior, on 06/14/2009, -1/+5well you know its very effective, its fun, and its a great way to stay in shape.
- Paul1245, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4Yup, I knew I was gonna see that comment, likely as the first.
- deepbl, on 06/14/2009, -1/+5FDA Warning, side-effects may include: nausea, vomiting, decrease in semen, itchy arm followed by immediate death, headaches, and heartburn.
- ElGubrush, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4well she was testing it. Her sister is a doctor. She voluntarily tested it and it didn't go well, but at least that anti-aging drug won't be released to the masses thanks to her
- rpgmakr, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4Not in internet time.
- LonelyTylenoL, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4She's a woman
- bodger, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4+s
- Wesside, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4Still not sure why adblock wont kill that one.
- templethegoof, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4So how exactly would a 22 year old know if it is working or not? Unless for some insane reason she already has wrinkles at 22 I doubt she would have noticed any results.
Edit: To be fair the drug was to treat diabetes, cancer, and hopefully reverse aging -
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