{"id":1368,"date":"2009-03-31T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:21:40","slug":"the-pill-pilot-trial-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"The PILL pilot trial (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it? Just days after I become involved in a trial of the so-called &#8220;polypill&#8221;, this morning the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper &#8211; for no apparent reason &#8211; runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2009\/03\/31\/magic-bullet-pill-to-cut-cardiac-stroke-by-half-115875-21242237\/\">a story<\/a> on this new form of medication.<br \/>\nFootnote: Now that I&#8217;ve seen more of today&#8217;s media, I see why the &#8220;polypill&#8221; is in  the news today. It&#8217;s because of the presentation of a paper yesterday at the American College of Cardiology annual conference &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2009\/mar\/31\/polypill-heart-attack-stroke\">this report<\/a> in the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; &#8211; and the publication of a paper in the &#8220;Lancet&#8221; &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(09)60611-5\/fulltext\">this summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it? Just days after I become involved in a trial of the so-called &#8220;polypill&#8221;, this morning the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper &#8211; for no apparent reason &#8211; runs a story on this new form of medication. Footnote: Now that I&#8217;ve seen more of today&#8217;s media, I see why the &#8220;polypill&#8221; is in the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}