Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

[rosemountbomber]

JL, no question that science marches on and although sometimes spends time going down a cul de sac, we learn more every century. We've learned much since the days of the old alchemists.

So hopefully, we find more answers about how to best treat COPD. As you describe to Babr, your experience with that facelift woman is anecdotal. There would be so many more details about her condition necessary to unravel what really happened for her to successfully dump the oxygen.

I have an anecdotal experience as well. Rather personal but just to show that it is difficult to extrapolate individual cases into generalizations about the population in general.

Approximately 8 year ago, my wife (who was sedentary, coffee and cigarettes for 35 years up till then) had gone outside after dinner for a smoke. She had been coughing a lot the last couple of days and complaining of "just a cold". She came back in the house and for the first time asked me to take her to the emergency room. After workup there, she was admitted, diagnosed with COPD and immediately put on oxygen. After a week she was released with a loud oxygen concentrator machine running 24/7 at home and a bunch of oxygen tanks in our dining room for she ever ventured out. She was defeated and depressed.

After seeing a lung doctor for the first time and learning various things about the disease (which she probably had for a long time) she slowly started to get herself on a very gradual regimen of trying to strengthen her leg muscles, etc. Long story short, within 3 months she was off oxygen entirely (No V) and a couple of years later, while on a cruise, climbed the thousand plus steps in Kotor. She has big limitations and her O2 level drops under strenuous conditions or altitude, but so far not required to get back on O2.

All that to say that in science anecdotes can lead to hypotheses and investigations (which is what you are saying in terms of recommending trying V) but it will require more rigorous investigations to know with some certainty how this particular disease responds.