DIAMOND PATCHES

[toonfandangl]

This was on the news last night they say its not new technology but they have found this nano tec is helping people that have side effects to chemo.



Diamonds could revolutionise chemo treatment

Posted Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:00pm AEST

A team of CSIRO researchers and international scientists say human trials of a new chemotherapy skin patch could be revolutionary.

The patch, made up of tiny diamond particles, could also be applied internally to provide a slower non-toxic release of the chemicals into the patient's body.

Trials on mice show the patches require 20 times less of the drug to be as effective as conventional chemotherapy.

The head of the CSIRO's virtual nanotechnology laboratory, Dr Amanda Barnard, says it will also mean fewer repeated treatments because the drug can be released over a long period of time.

"We've already got it up to many months and the aim is for it to be up to a year," she said.

"This means that there's no burst release of this great sickness when the person takes chemotherapy, they'll have a sort of slow steady dosage over a longer period."

The other thing is diamonds might just be in demand again.....Oranjemund SAVED..........well..

[Michael Alexander]

Interesting article... never knew of this..... must write it in my books 101 Uses for diamonds....