Using diamonds to fight cancer

I've been meaning to publish this for a while and am just now getting around to it. The problem is that chemotherapy is not concentrated, it flushes out of your body too quickly. This is an interesting process: they use industrial diamonds, chemically treat them so that they are sticky to the chemo drug, then they're blended, making a grayish slurry. The combo is injected directly into the tumor, and the diamonds help the chemo to persist inside the tumor, so more is delivered to the tumor and the treatment becomes more effective.

NPR diamonds article

Re-engineering drugs! Refining marijuana and ecstasy for medical applications.

Some interesting stuff. They're mapping the genome of marijuana to refine the medical aspects and reduce the narcotic effects. Personally I'd prefer to see tougher restrictions on alcohol and loosen them on marijuana.

NPR marijuana article

For ecstasy, they've found that it is extremely effective against blood cancers and lymphomas. It has to be concentrated to dosages that would be lethal, so they definitely have some work ahead of them.

BBC ecstasy article