there have probably been cures found for certain illnesses but have been hushed up by pharmaceutical companies? I sometimes think this is probably the case. Your thoughts please.
2006-11-29 12:07:40 · 18 answers · asked by Missing Link 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Mark B. It's just a question, do you have any friends?
2006-11-29 12:17:47 · update #1
Yes. I think diabetes has a cure, but the drug companies make so much money on insulin and testing supplies that if the cure was let out they would all go bankrupt.
2006-11-29 12:10:02 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan's mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that is so true. the pharmaceutical companies are trying to keep it on the low because they make lots of money. there is probably a cure for lots of illnesses but the public just doesn't know it. there are probably natural cure for illnesses. most of the time when people take medication it makes them feel worse.
2006-11-29 12:20:20 · answer #2 · answered by Diamond 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree because, unfortunately, healers have turned into business men and do not have altruistic goals. Isn't it ironic that these drug companies can find a cure for penile dysfunction and have someone like Bob Dole market it, yet they can not find a cure for diseases that affect a large number of the population?
It's even sadder that we have turned the health care industry into a discount business where the rich are saved, yet the poor who are unable to afford the right medicines die. You have millions of people die each year due to AIDS, diabetes, etc and yet you have millionaires like Magic Johnson surviving because he has the money to afford the right medication. I'm glad he's alive and can spend time with his family, but I'm angry that the drug companies are, in essence, selecting who lives and who dies.
You can send a man to the moon, yet you can't cure the common cold. Shame
2006-11-29 12:23:51 · answer #3 · answered by wildenemart 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of cures may be "on the cutting edge", so pharmaceutical companies have to be quiet until there is a definite breakthrough regarding something.
2006-11-29 12:17:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. What would they have to gain? I think the reason people go into the pharmaceutical business if either because they want to help find cures for diseases or become rich (or both.) Either way they wouldn't bother covering it up.
2006-11-29 14:49:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
good question i heard something that made me think a while back supposedly in america there was a basketball player that ended up with aids. and was told he wouldnt live long yet he was the best player for his team and supposedly years later he hadnt died and was classed as clear.. it may be a lie but it sounds pretty messed up i mean i have had ashtma since i was a kid inhalers cost the bomb and yet i have heard their is a cure in holland purely by stem research so yeah probably they do.
2006-11-29 12:17:39 · answer #6 · answered by nommie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that has definitely happened. many cures for illnesses are known but not available because pharmaceutical companies find that they are not lucrative enough for them.
2006-11-29 12:10:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You all seem to think it's just pharmaceutical companies that do research.
2006-11-29 12:17:44 · answer #8 · answered by Player 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything is possible in the capitalistic jungle of the the American corporate culture!
2006-11-29 12:23:02 · answer #9 · answered by Nikolas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes definatly but the government makes too much money from people being ill. also it's used as population control. remember AIDS and HIV is a man made virus........
2006-11-29 12:22:43 · answer #10 · answered by skinyfrog 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋