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Drugs and Treatments in todays capitalist markets

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  • #31
    Re: Drugs and Treatments in todays capitalist markets

    I am discussing this on a national level because it is nations that decide what their people need not some vague world wide structure. Some nations have different diseases then others thus each nation can work on the cure it needs most. Some forms of cancer are more of a problem then others so these are the ones which will get the attention first. Just ask the person i mentioned earlier what she thinks about the wonders of modern medicine under capitalism. Imagine no progress in over 60 years! Makes me sick.
    Hayastan or Bust.

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    • #32
      Re: Drugs and Treatments in todays capitalist markets

      Ah, so there was the division. I was discussing global while you were discussing national.
      Ultimately, we are agreeing. There was some progress but not in finding cures, per se.

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      • #33
        Re: Drugs and Treatments in todays capitalist markets

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)

        "From 1347 to 1351, the Black Death, a massive and deadly pandemic originating in China, spread along the Silk Road and swept through Asia, Europe and Africa.[15] It may have reduced the world's population from 450 million to between 350 and 375 million.[22] China lost around half of its population, from around 123 million to around 65 million; Europe around 1/3 of its population, from about 75 million to about 50 million; and Africa approximately 1/8th of its population, from around 80 million to 70 million (mortality rates tended to be correlated with population density so Africa, being less dense overall, had the lowest rate)."

        Just a little specification


        The best progress we have made is providing nearly everyone in the so-called developed countries with the basic conditions for a decent living (until now, at least). That alone has almost completely erased the major epidemics from those areas (except AIDS, but that's a new one), as well as a number of infective diseases that still kill/disable hundreds of thousands every year in the rest of the world. Especially where there's a war going on.
        I suspect one of the reasons why treatment for "old school" diseases was implemented was that a dead man is of no use as a soldier/worker/consumer. A man suffering from cancer, heart condition, mental illness or one of the many degenerative diseases, on the contrary, can still produce and buy for quite a long time, until they're with both feet in the grave. And even then, they "consume" treatment.

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        • #34
          Re: Drugs and Treatments in todays capitalist markets

          Odar, I highly respect you
          But your link sends me here:
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          there have been 'discoveries' but not cures.

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