Diabetes: To Cure or Not to Cure?
Will science EVER find a cure for diabetes...and if they do how will it impact the multi-billion dollar industry that has grown around it?
Reference: http://www.diabetesauthor.com
Posted By themonk on September 10, 2007
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Science is working hard to cure this terrible disease and stop the suffering of millions.
Scientists have already discovered a cure for diabetes. There's one problem. It involves stem cells.
For thos eof you who don't know exactly what type one diabetes is.
According to Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 20th Edition the etiology of type one diabetes mellitus is 'caused by the autoimmune destruction of the insulin secreting beta cells of the pancreas. The loss of these cells results in nearly complete insulin deficiency; without exogenous insulin type 1 DM is rapidly fatal.'
So basically one's own body kills the parts of the pancreas that make insulin.
Science is working as hard as funding allows for continued research.
-- Posted By Westcoast on September 10, 2007The funding has to come from somewhere.
Perhaps from corportations? Maybe the generous contributions of private persons?
A genuine interest in the science of finding a cure and funding is a winning combination.
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If they found a cure for diabetes it would destroy a multi-billion dollar industry that depends on t
Corporate health care profits won't help all the people in diabetes-related business who lose jobs.
-- Posted By themonk on September 10, 2007Granted the rich will get richer if a cure is found, but what will happen to the jobs of tens of thousands of others whose employers make non-medical diabetes-related products? .
Look at it this way. They have developed laser hair removal, yet razors sell in the millions each day. There are tanning salons, and people still go to the beach. There is laser vision correction, yet glasses and contacts are all the rage.
Just because a treatment is available for a disease doesn't mean that the disease will disappear.
Corportate healthcare would make a fortune "providing the cure" to millions of people.
-- Posted By Westcoast on September 10, 2007The vast number of people suffering from diabetes would justify the effort to provide a cure. Corporate healthcare has many diseases to "cure" and to become profitable.
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