Is there any hope in finding a cure for diseases? Why would the drug companies want to cure an illness when there is no money in it? If we find cures for illnesses then the big phamaceutical companies that create drugs to ease our pain and help deal with the disease would go bankrupt. Finding cures for disease would greatly hurt our economy by eliminating the need for the multi billion dollar drug industry. Are people even working on finding cures? If there is no money in finding a cure and only money in creating drugs to help with the pain, etc. then do companies even fund the research to find a cure? What if a cure has been found but they won't tell us b/c it would ruin our economy? I ask these questions b/c I am so frustrated! My loved one may have Juvenile Rhematoid Arthritis and I feel so helpless. Are they ever going to find a cure? Is anyone even working on curing this or just alleviating the pain with drugs? I think we are all reing lied to.
2007-05-09 12:35:21 · 8 answers · asked by Mommy 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Good point, i think that there should be a wall seperating research and development from marketing and profit seeking departments within companies.
There are vaccines being found such as Merck's HPV vaccine.
2007-05-09 12:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by mrstaypuft48 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have always believed that the drug companies could find a cure for Diabetes but have purposely not. If they come up for a cure for Diabetes it would cost them Billions and more a year....between Insulin, Needles, Testing Materials etc. I had cancer several years ago. The type of cancer I had would have killed me fast 30 years ago. I have been cancer free for 5 years now. This doesn't mean I won't get cancer again, but for now I have been cured. Nowadays, Aids patients don't die as quickly as they did when they first found the disease. The treatments that they have come up with are slowing it down. Someday there will be a cure for many things, especially with the new work being done with genetically.
2007-05-09 13:03:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of diseases have been cured over the last century. The ones that are left are chronic diseases, many of them auto-immune or aging related, and many 'rare' when taken individually. So, yes, resources do tend to go toward developing treatments for the symptoms of these diseases, since, had they been curable the same way, say, bacterial infections are, they'd've been cured a long time ago.
None the less, there is research ongoing that could cure many such diseases. Stem cell research - both right-wing-acceptable adult and embryonic, might well cure many chronic auto-immune diseases, for instance. Another example is cancer. 'Cancer' is a broad term, and 'cancer' hasn't been cured. Many specific types of cancer, though, can now be survived, and even 'cured' (stay in remission until the patient dies of something else). In fact, relatively few cancers still have low survival rates if caught early.
There is a perverse incentive to find treatments rather than cures, though, in that a treatment gets you a customer for life (or, at least, for the 17 years your patent lets you make large profits). Research is very expensive, and it has to be funded somehow...
2007-05-09 12:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're upset about the rheumatoid arthritis. That's understandable. But there's no conspiracy against cures. Lots of diseases just can't be cured. But some can, and others have been prevented or cured. Look at the vaccine against cervical cancer that just came out. There are plenty more where those came from.
2007-05-09 12:42:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I will admit that I have thought for a long time now that a cure for cancer or close to it has been found. But the pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment companies have paid to have it "suppressed" because they would suffer financially if it was reveled. I know that this would appall some people, but the pharmaceutical companies are multi-billion dollar companies and they'd like to keep it that way. If things like cancer started to be cured, they would lose money. And they like to make money.
2007-05-09 12:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by Princess of the Realm 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the drug companies (dealers) want to keep us on maintenance drugs that treat symptoms, but not cure the illness. The last cure was the polio vaccine in the 40' or 50's
2007-05-09 12:49:12 · answer #6 · answered by Texas Guy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thank You, I'm very sorry that illness is affecting and afflicting your family at the present. Yes, you are quite right in your assumption and many of us share in your dilemma. Corporate America controls the purse strings of our politics and politicians. There is a very great deal that we have no knowledge of in regards not only to medical questions but issues that would seem of most importance and relevance to problems we're all faced with. We already know there are solutions "out there" that are not being made available to the general public. Both major political parties succumb to the monetary pressure of big business. To do something may I suggest your affiliations be focused on a third party. The strength is not there but it's growing. By supporting a third party your voice is more apt to be heard as united our issues are considered or we cost them votes and it seems that power is more important in politics than the secondary goal of greed.
2007-05-09 12:49:10 · answer #7 · answered by Don W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a lot of diseases have been cured.
what's your problem?
2007-05-09 12:42:29 · answer #8 · answered by charbatch 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋