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Thursday, 1 September 2011

Virtual Ventricle: Computer Predicts Dangers of Arrhythmia Drugs Better than Animal Testing: Scientific American

Virtual Ventricle: Computer Predicts Dangers of Arrhythmia Drugs Better than Animal Testing: Scientific American:

'via Blog this'Several clinical trials, including the seminal 1986 Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial(CAST), even showed that the use of certain drugs designed to correct tachyarrhythmia—encainide and flecainide, in particular—actually increased the risk of death.

fucking flecainide.. felt like it was trying to kill me.

Drugs like flecainide were expected to suppress the trigger that caused more heartbeats per minute but instead created conditions for the tachyarrhythmia to worsen.


Sunday, 17 July 2011

Festival at the Edge: Artists appearing at FATE 2011

Festival at the Edge: Artists appearing at FATE 2011

These are the artists I saw at the festival. Not my scene really but enjoyable and interesting.
Robert Owens-Greygrass
Stanley Accrington
Simon Heywood
Eddie Lenihan
Christine McMahon
Colum Sands-  
Robin Williamson