Digitalis, a heart drug made from a plant (or herb), foxglove, is now being chemically tinkered with to produce what the tinkerers hope will be a cancer-killing agent, according to BBC Health News. Hmm... let's ignore dozens of plants that have shown anti-cancer activity (see the database) but tinker with a drug so we can... uh, patent it, that's right!
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