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  • Tali
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    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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  • Odar
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    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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  • Tali
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    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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  • Haykakan
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    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.

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  • Tali
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    Perhaps I wasn't clear. I understood what you're saying. But from a healthcare profession standpoint that I have, I see it differently. For instance, stroke is not a disease. Heart disease is usually linked to more genetic-based. Cancer has so many different forms. There's breast cancer, colon cancer, 'blood' cancers, and so many more. Some of these are more common say, in America versus Canada, or Africa, China, and so forth. Drugs are an international market; so 'picking a cure' would be interesting. Not impossible, but interesting because the type of diet people have, the type of exercise necessary to live in various societies will affect what kind of diseases they are prone to. For instance, the plague was in Europe, not Asia.

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  • Haykakan
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    Tali I don't think you are grasping this concept very well. There are a few diseases today which already effect or will in the future effect most of the population. Cancer, heart disease, stroke are things that almost everyone will get unless cures are found therefore we are all afeected and would want cures to these diseases. It is not as complicated as you are making it out. The search for cures is driven by the self interest of the population not the profitability for pharma (idealy).

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  • retro
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    Originally posted by myragnarok View Post
    There is also incentive to get $$$ for stuff like cure for cancer, and say we still haven't found the cure for it when they might have... you get the point
    If you get cancer you are pretty much done for and it's a really horrible thing. A cousin of mine is an Oncology Nurse and she was telling me that maybe nine out of ten people, who she threats don't make it.

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  • Tali
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    Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
    Which disease to research cures for is easy to decide. You start with the ones afflicting the most people and doing the most damage. You research to find cures for whatever ails society the most. People do care about cures - even if you do not have heart disease or cancer you should still care about finding cures because chances are you will have them later and your family and friends will to. Yes there will be less choices but you will get what you need and there will be actual cures to serious problems instead of treatments which never fix anything. The answers are all there its the power to make things happen that is not.
    Not so easy... For which demographic? for which race? Some diseases discriminate. Whose society? People generally don't care about cures because they want the symptoms to go away. If it's not bothering them, they learn to tolerate whatever it is they have (ie: our asthma). As for those people that do care, when you go to ask them for money they shy away from you. (I was a fundraiser.. got firsthand experience on that one ) People live in a perpetual state of denial. Everyone thinks "it won't be me." This is assuming people even find the cure. How many "cures" have we really found to date? I wouldn't say so much the power, I'd say the willingness isn't.

    Originally posted by Odar View Post
    The analogy with food is not correct. There are different types of food indeed, but, say, Chinese noodles are Chinese noodles, no need to have 450 different brands of the same thing right? People almost always judge a product from its package, whereas its taste - or in case of medications - its active principles are more or less the same. If we take it for good that a certain chemical compound/xxxxtail is supposed to have this and that effect on the average human being, then let's have just one product, the one that works best, and that's it.
    I think you missed my point. I was saying food. You gave me a perfect example. You chose a specific type of food: Chinese noodles. Chinese noodles are grains. What else are grains? Cereal, bread, etc. We have a variety of food that still gives you the same nutrients that your body needs. So the point I was making was that we could pretty much live off of austronaut food - which though isn't very appetizing, does give you what you need to survive. Astronaut food is typically considered "the best;" at giving you the essentials. So really, to stay in line with the idea of medicine simplisticism, we'd all be eating astronaut food.


    Originally posted by Odar View Post
    Also, it's not researchers and chemists who profit the most from the marketing of a product - it's who runs the firm they're working for. Hence, they should still receive a salary like any other worker, and maybe an even better one once the buck doesn't get wasted in CEO bonuses, advertising, and legal counseling should smth "go wrong" And of course more funds would then be available for serious research on treatments and not just on palliatives, and on sensible information campaigns for the public - not the rather terroristic ones we see now :/
    agreed.
    however, a lot of the commercials' point is to make people aware of medicine to ask their doctor about and "see if it is right" for them. I'd rather have these temporary patches than none while waiting for a cure that may or may not come. There actually was a time when medicine was not allowed to air commercials.

    Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
    Capitalism in concept sounds good but it's all just a fake system where the corruption is concealed from the general public. The idea of investing in companies which is supposed to allow people to own commodities and/or a stake in the company sounds like the most fair way that you can share the profits. Also if you work for a medical company, you'd work harder seeing that if your company does well, the shares would do well and you'd benefit from the labour. The flaw is that your rights to say something like a cure to a disease would belong to the company since you are their employee. Now why would I work hard to develop something only to see someone else benefit?
    Hmm... you described two different things: employees and shareholders. When working for a company, you are not automatically a shareholder. You still have to buy the "stock." It is the shareholders who get a vote in what the company does... but the point of shareholding is to make a profit when they're doing well. If the company is doing poorly, you lose money.

    As for your last question, that's interesting. Many researchers don't have the disease they're researching on. Some are researchers because it was the available job. They're just there to get their paycheck. So, your question also applies: Now why would I work hard to develop something only to see someone else benefit? They won't get a payraise for finding the cure. The company will get the credit.
    Last edited by Tali; 02-21-2011, 07:28 AM.

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  • KanadaHye
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    Capitalism in concept sounds good but it's all just a fake system where the corruption is concealed from the general public. The idea of investing in companies which is supposed to allow people to own commodities and/or a stake in the company sounds like the most fair way that you can share the profits. Also if you work for a medical company, you'd work harder seeing that if your company does well, the shares would do well and you'd benefit from the labour. The flaw is that your rights to say something like a cure to a disease would belong to the company since you are their employee. Now why would I work hard to develop something only to see someone else benefit?

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  • Odar
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    The analogy with food is not correct. There are different types of food indeed, but, say, Chinese noodles are Chinese noodles, no need to have 450 different brands of the same thing right? People almost always judge a product from its package, whereas its taste - or in case of medications - its active principles are more or less the same. If we take it for good that a certain chemical compound/xxxxtail is supposed to have this and that effect on the average human being, then let's have just one product, the one that works best, and that's it.
    Also, it's not researchers and chemists who profit the most from the marketing of a product - it's who runs the firm they're working for. Hence, they should still receive a salary like any other worker, and maybe an even better one once the buck doesn't get wasted in CEO bonuses, advertising, and legal counseling should smth "go wrong" And of course more funds would then be available for serious research on treatments and not just on palliatives, and on sensible information campaigns for the public - not the rather terroristic ones we see now :/

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