The bro been busy along with the semi-bro Welsh in finding the Achillies heel of colon cancer something that recently killed a longtime friend.

The bad news is the outdated, ultra risk averse apporach that our society has to allowing new medical treatments thanks to trial lawyers' passion for settlement fees. Something that has undoubtedly caused many preventable deaths.

Dr Gail Cardew, at the Royal Institution in London, said, "Were the precautionary principle adopted at the time, penicillin would not have been given to Albert Alexander after so little testing in animals. No doubt it would have been tested on other animals, and yet subsequently penicillin was found to be toxic to guinea pigs. In this scenario, would we have been too cautious ever to try out "the wonder drug" on humans?"

Stuart Derbyshire, assistant professor of anaesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh said "Xenotransplantation could benefit thousands, but is being held back by ill-founded concerns about porcine retroviruses. Vaccines could be inside staple foods such as potatoes but are not, because of spurious concerns about GM food. Unsafe vaccinations are responsible for many thousands of avoidable infections and deaths every year. Stem cells and fetal cells could be employed against devastating and deadly neurological and cardiovascular disease, but are not, because of medieval beliefs about the sanctity of embryos. Even drugs to tackle neurological disease are held back, because of ridiculous fears that a "pharmacological underclass" will be created."

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