[fire_mat99]

Why is it that from 1900 to 2004 there has ben major advances in science,space,technology,aviation so on but medicine very little .Like cancer,tumor,illness ,old age look,gray hair,wrinkle,diseases ,cancer,heart disease, muscle problem,bone problem,tissues problem,lungs problem,stomach problem,blood vessels or blood problem,Prostate problem,Breast Cancer,Lung Cancer,Colorectal Cancer,Lymphoma,Bladder problem,Uterine problem,Skin problem,Kidney problem,Pancreatic problem,TB problem so on

 

[Big-K]

Well for one there's the fact that we have no idea if its even POSSIBLE to cure those kinds of things. As far as I know, the only thing we know we can cure is bacterial disease, and also disorders with gene therapy. All they can do is enhance the treatment, which takes a lot of testing to do. Besides, the public seems more interested in things like better mp3 players and better resolution on their tv's.

 

[Raeli]

Are you kidding?

We've wiped out entire diseases!

Although cancer has not been wiped out, most forms of cancer have a much, much higher survivability percentage than they did even 30 years ago. People survive multiple heart attacks, high blood pressure and all manner of things that would have killed them ay an early age at the turn of the last cetury.

According to the CDC, life at expectance at birth has gone from 47.3 in 1900 to 77.3 in 2002.

LINK

 

[Big-K]

We've found ways to prevent them, not cure them. As far as I know, you can make someone never get polio, but you can't take it away once they have it. Cancer can go into sleep mode, but can't be cured. We HAVE increased life expectancy, I know that, that's because we give out many vaccines and have built up loads of immunities. It's also because of increased sanitary awareness. The black plague happened because people werent sanitary. Cancer victims live longer because of better treatment. We didnt even know what cancer was forty years ago.

 

[barfly]

We didnt even know what cancer was forty years ago.

The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), considered the "Father of Medicine." Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek these words refer to a crab, most likely applied to the disease because the finger-like spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. Carcinoma is the most common type of cancer.

Just a little longer than 40 years ago

It is probably that we have discovered the causes in the last half century.

But you are correct in that we are curing deseases that we didn't know about 40 or so years ago.I just hope that whatever I am going to die from will be curable before it's too late for me

 

[angelize56]

There has been much progress made in the detection and treatment of diseases....cancer being one of them...look at all the research at St. Jude's Children's Hospital...years ago a large majority of the children with leukemia and other childhood cancers died...had it not been for the medical advances at St. Jude's a large number of children would also have died during our lifetime....but they are now being put into long remissions and even cures. The bone marrow transplant has been a miracle and a lifesaver! :up:

 

[Omega_Shadow]

Most research done today is for medication that treats symptems and not the actual diseases. Actualy, how I understand it that is how most of the medical feild works in todays age.

 

[angelize56]

Actually bone marrow transplants and stem cell research aren't based on finding medications to treat disease. Stem cell research is so promising...if it is ever allowed to continue by the government....it's a touchy issue!

 

[Omega_Shadow]

very true. I dont know where I stand on that yet... I'll leave it to the guys in Un-Civilized debate.

What I am talking about is the bulk of the research done is based on treating symptems and not making cures.

 

[barfly]

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What I am talking about is the bulk of the research done is based on treating symptems and not making cures.

If you cure someone they stop taking the drugs, but if you can just make them live longer then you have a captive market

 

[PopPicker]

Where's the profit in curing !!!

"Here take these and come back and see me next week, next week, next week ,next week............"

 

[fire_mat99]

Yes medication has ben around for long time but we are not going to find a cure for these problem if so whe would have back 1300 or more ago.

It like say in 2050 we are going have cure for gray hair or wrinkle if it was so we would found it back in 1200 or more years ago..


Reason why aviation is getting better because if we know how aviation works its building block .. Take the B-29 now if whe remove some of the basic operation on plane like first in one in 1903 the B-29 would be like papper waint

Same has electronics take new computer top of line remove the first transistor made 1947 you computer in 2004 is nothing but nice papper waint if you cant make a transistor you have to use tubes like the ENIAC before transistors witch is no more strong enough than the computer in the ENIAC time..

Every day the more transistor the faster the computer and better If some how we wake up we know how to make P3 computer but not P4
computer but we have parts for P4 the P4 computers nothing but nice papper waint .

Take out electricity and there is no electronics ..Take out water or food and there is no people ..

Find a cure for cancer we don't know you need -----for cancer !! if it was medication it would happen long time ago.

Why did electronics come so fast becuse we found electricity .Why do radios work becuse of radio waves part of the electromagnetic spectrum



angelize56 what is stem cell

 

[Big-K]

stem cell
n.

An unspecialized cell that gives rise to a specific specialized cell, such as a blood cell.

 

[fire_mat99]

stem cell
n.

An unspecialized cell that gives rise to a specific specialized cell, such as a blood cell.

no no no I kinda know what it is but not really

 

[Big-K]

They can replace bad cells with them Embryotic ones are so popular because they can take the form of whatever type you put it with, whereas adult ones already have a set type.

 

[fire_mat99]

Here what I found on it

cncer (medicine), any of more than 100 diseases characterized by excessive, uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells, which invade and destroy other tissues. Cancer develops in almost any organ or tissue of the body, but certain types of cancer are more lethal than others. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada and second only to heart disease in the United States. Each year, more than 1.2 million Americans and 132,000 Canadians are diagnosed with cancer, and more than 1,700 people die from cancer each day in the United States and Canada. For reasons not well understood, cancer rates vary by gender, race, and geographic region. For instance, more males have cancer than females, and African Americans are more likely to develop cancer than persons of any other racial and ethnic group in North America. Cancer rates also vary globally—residents of the United States, for example, are nearly three times as likely to develop cancer than are residents of Egypt.

 

[fire_mat99]

Besides, the public seems more interested in things like better mp3 players and better resolution on their tv's.

Only becuse they are making a profit !! Do you think IT does it for humanity no profit !!