Two recent articles from Boing Boing suggest major advances in medical science. The first talks about a compound which “reverses Alzheimer’s in minutes,” which is a pretty bold claim and has so far been tested on only one patient, but has at least the possibility of being true. The second talks about using the rabies virus to deliver therapeutic drugs directly into the brain, due to it’s ability to get through the blood-brain barrier.

It gives me hope that they might some day solve the hardest and most critical question of medical science: how to reduce patient waiting times in doctors’ offices.

(For those following the ongoing medical saga, I went to the doctor today, and it turns out that it’s bronchitis. A week of antibiotics should see it cleared up.)