--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Suzieq wrote: ... Maybe some day soon......they will decide there is a cure using something so we can all go off this stuff and feel like a human being again! ...
Me too! Unfortunately the incentive (money) is in developing treatments, not cures. I don't think anyone would actually suppress a cure for leukemia or AIDS. But if there is a known mechanism for controlling a disease and keeping people healthy that requires taking an expensive medication for the duration. Then the incentive for competitors is to develop medications that do the same thing. And there is incentive for both originator and competitor to develop drugs that work when the original drug(s) fail. Of course I owe my life to the development of the enzyme inhibiting medications that control these diseases so I am grateful for their existence. And there is ongoing research around the world to find actual cures. It's just that research in the pharmaceutical industry is focused on finding more ways to inhibit HIV and hopefully suppress CML with fewer side effects because, well, that's their job. I do think we will see a cure for CML. But it and many other areas of research obviously have been delayed for many years by U.S. policy that was in my opinion less than fully considered. Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
