Drug could offer "super-survivability" to soldiers

Hmmm... didn't think about it that way, but putting all the negative things aside it might have some good use to it for example less families will lose loved ones,enc.

A lot of things come from the military that benefit everyday people other than weapons. Surgical techniques, prosthesis, fist aid techniques...Trauma standards...Some of the stuff I use in the real world was developed by the Army/military...On the lighter side; superglue? (well now it is called DermaBond and is 40 dollars a tube used in surgeries everyday to close wounds without scarring)that was military field sutures from the Vietnam era. Same stuff(without being sterile) you get at the drug store. There are a lot of advancements that come from the military, many in the field of medicine as ... [More]

The benefits of such a drug are great - to increase the chances of survival for an injured soldier is brilliant. I have to say though, although I understand why animals are tested on, I find the following very distasteful and unethical: Now Alam has repeated the study in pigs. He anaesthetised the animals, drained 60 per cent of their blood, and subjected them to other injuries before giving them a saline transfusion. He then injected some of the pigs with valproic acid, gave others a blood transfusion and left the remainder untreated. MethodsYorkshire swine were subjected to a poly-trauma pro... [More]

The benefits of such a drug are great - to increase the chances of survival for an injured soldier is brilliant. I have to say though, although I understand why animals are tested on, I find the following very distasteful and unethical: I agree. They were my thoughts upon reading the article too, however I did not mention it as I didn't want to open up that particular can of worms, as I'm not sure how you'd test this kind of drug without doing something similar...

Agree with Fluffybunny. Well put.

Agree with Fluffybunny. Well put. Plus the U.S. mlitary gave us the internet.

Plus the U.S. mlitary gave us the internet. Wasn't that Al Gore?

Wasn't that Al Gore? Nope, not to my knowledge. Thats just some rumor started by Gore miss speaking.

Great another shot that will be tried out on soldiers

sounds like pigs are useful sacks of organs for ethically dubious trials before making the jump to human tests, huh. on the plus side, only 25% of the pigs that received saline injections survived. that's a lot of bacon! :lol: