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r we getting dumber as the years go by? ailment?
why is there no cures for common ailments, such as diabities, aids, cancer, colds to name a few. when a 100 or so years ago they were cureing all sorts of ailments, did we get dumb or are we trying hard enough

2006-08-11 22:47:51 · 5 answers · asked by Dawn C 5 in Health Other - Health

then why is there no cure?

2006-08-11 22:53:55 · update #1

interesting

2006-08-11 23:04:09 · update #2

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Dawn - I get your question - Insulin is no more a cure for diabetes than a band-aid helps a gun wound. AIDS has been around long enough that with our current technology there should be a cure. So I think you have a supremely valid question and all I can answer with is everything is politicized now. If you want to cure AIDS you need to get funding, to get funding, you need to find a sponser, if you find a private sponser great, but at the same time some fool (congressperson, assemblyman, vice President) has a stake in seeing that you don't get funding because they have the "AZT" makers' lobbyist in their pocket and the AZT makers don't want a cure for AIDS, just like the insulin makers don't want a cure for diabetes. They pay lip service, but the reality is they would rather people be sick so they can sell more product. If you cured AIDS or Diabetes then the sick people would get better and not need the medicine that's being pushed on Capitol Hill, or they will die and not need the medicine. So the drug companies answer is to treat the disease, but not cure it.

2006-08-11 23:45:16 · answer #1 · answered by Sidoney 5 · 1 0

We aren't getting dumber. We have more technology and can detect things faster and better these days.

The trouble with more technology is that some of us are getting lazier and wanting to NOT THINK! If you use the technology well, you can achieve excellent results. If you use it poorly, you get poorer outcomes but sometimes the technology can be a prop.

The current cure for diabetes is Insulin. We are working on ways to regrow or replace the pancreas cells so that diabetics can make their own insulin again. Pancreas cell transplants have occurred already.

AIDS is difficult to cure for many reasons.

Cancer is curable in some cases. We are able to surgically remove an early cancer and if early enough (before spread) then the patient is usually cured! We have good medicines that can give good outcomes for some disseminated and haematological cancers.

The common cold defies cure. There is now a drug (Relenza) that shortens the duration of the cold. There are still issues with the prescription and practical use of this drug.

100 years or so ago they had no cure for diabetes or cancer. They were not AWARE of AIDS and the common cold has just plagued us all this time.

2006-08-11 23:00:44 · answer #2 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 1 0

Absolutely not. We are coming up with so many new techniques, etc. that the advances are before the diseases, in some cases. It wasn't that years ago they were curing all those diseases, but they didn't know what was killing them and everyone lived to a much shorter age. Every year the age expectancy grows, even by a few months. There are so many medicines, treatments, etc. out there it's just a matter of finding them, affording them, or wanting them.

2006-08-11 23:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by nurseTINA 4 · 0 0

There are cures somewhere but for now they are only known to a few. One day there will be a drug that will help cure many ailments according to Yoda.

2006-08-11 23:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no, not in the least

we're not making less progress on the thing you've mentioned, we're making MORE

2006-08-11 22:52:48 · answer #5 · answered by banzai 4 · 0 0

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