Things they should have cured by now

candy-gal1

Cancer, brain tumours and the like!

It would save a hell of a lot of heartache and people who are pretty much moderatly and even very healthy losing their life like that!

Cool Story Bro

Gayness...
Brace yourselves, backlask is coming

steddyeddy

flutterflye wrote: »

My sister in law is involved in some of the most recent cancer research.
She admits that they have learned alot, and are definitely getting alot closer, but by no means can they 'cure' any cancer!
They have cured it in many lab experiments, but so has chemo etc... for decades.
They have not found any definite 'cures'.

And I know all about the most recent genome findings in autism - I have read all the studies available online, and not once did I come across a supposed 'cure'.
So do tell where I could find some information on this topic please.

Where did I say that?

Capt'n Midnight

Cool Story Bro wrote: »

Gayness...
Brace yourselves, backlask is coming

since there isn't much point in sterilising them , ya might as well sterilise the parents

if one in ten is gay and the average family size is 2.5 then you only have to sterilise 1/4 of the breeding population

of course it's not all about genetics - have you forgotten about the Gay Bomb so soon ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4174519.stm

robp

Duggy747 wrote: »

It's tied up with red tape and legislation. Alot of people like the Catholic Church are against stem cell research, having been compared to the likes of abortion and other daft notions.

In fact the converse is the reality. The Catholic church has even began to run academic conferences to promote stem cell research (therapeutic kind with adult stem cells). Regarding 'red tape' there was a recent European ruling that banned patenting stem cells so actually its more of a scientific free for all in Europe atm.

flutterflye

steddyeddy wrote: »

Where did I say that?

steddyeddy wrote: »

Well they can cure a lot more than people think at this moment in time. In animal models biochemists and geneticists can cure and significantly improve a rake of maladies including but not limited to autisim, anxiety disorders, lifespan in mice has been extended, some forms of cancers, aids (although this study has been extended to humans recently) and a rake of other diseases and syndromes.

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Cool Story Bro

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Cool Story Bro wrote: »

Gayness...
Brace yourselves, backlask is coming

since there isn't much point in sterilising them , ya might as well sterilise the parents

if one in ten is gay and the average family size is 2.5 then you only have to sterilise 1/4 of the breeding population

of course it's not all about genetics - have you forgotten about the Gay Bomb so soon ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4174519.stm

Oh God.... The US military are crazy...

steddyeddy

flutterflye wrote: »

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Some forms of cancers is a vast distance away from "all forms of cancers".

flutterflye

steddyeddy wrote: »

Some forms of cancers is a vast distance away from "all forms of cancers".

And where did I say that?

af_thefragile

There will always be something that'll get us at some point. Bugs are smarter than science and it has become very apparent that in the war between antibiotics and bacteria, its the bacteria that are winning. The rates of resistance is increasing at an alarming rate and medicine can barely keep up with the new strains of bugs that keep emerging which are resistant to conventional antibiotics and thus need increasingly more powerful antibiotics to fight off...

Modern medicine has allowed humans to live longer than ever before but at what expense? Before people used to die of infections, heart attacks and other such diseases while they were still able to live independently.

Now people still die of the same things as they did a couple of centuries ago, only difference is people also end up with degenerative brain diseases such as Alzhimers and other forms of dementia and become completely dependent on carers before reaching the point where they will eventually die of infection, stroke, heart attack etc.

steddyeddy

flutterflye wrote: »

And where did I say that?

You said we cant cure any cancer. I said we can stop some forms.

flutterflye

steddyeddy wrote: »

You said we cant cure any cancer. I said we can stop some forms.

A minute ago you had no such memory.
Anyway what you said is untrue.

Successful attempts are not standard, or exceptionally common.
It would be more accurate to say something like "there have been many breakthroughs in certain areas, which have led to some successful attempts in putting a halt to some forms of cancer."

As for your claims about 'curing' autism???
I'm still waiting for a link to these claims.

Capt'n Midnight

Cool Story Bro wrote: »

Oh God.... The US military are crazy...

Bat Bomb

The assassination attempts on Castro

Mark 45 torpedo - wire guided nuclear torpedo sounds sensible enough
except the lethal radius was longer than the wire ...

The use of defoliants to along roads to remove cover for ambushers.
The theory was that an AK47 wasn't accurate from over 200m away.
In practice you don't have to be that accurate when firing at a convoy of trucks, also meant that it was very hard to target the ambushers.

wargames that showed Iran could take out a US carrier even with the US cheating, since then US has gotten better missile defense, but the Iranians have gotten better missiles and 200 Knot torpedos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

loosing a B2 because of humidity - pilots ejected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hb-OutGAY

1997 cost was $2.2Bn each , our defence budget for a couple of years.

Duggys Housemate

what happened to this thread?

opinion guy

Someone let a homophobe in and thus the collective IQ of the thread plummeted

Jim_Kiy

Anyone said Measles yet? I mean wtf outbreak in cork?

Doc Ruby

Acne.

flutterflye

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Acne.

Can they not cure that yet?? :eek:

Doc Ruby

flutterflye wrote: »

Can they not cure that yet?? :eek:

Its a hormonal response, not a skin infection. Guys on steroids get the same thing. They still should be able to do something.

bnt

Killer Wench wrote: »

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT)

http://themscure.blogspot.com/2010/06/stem-cell-transplantation-reference.html

Oh, I see - I thought you were going to mention the "liberation" procedure. That involves inserting stents in veins leading from your neck, based on the hypothesis* that MS is linked to iron build up due to poor blood drainage (CCSVI). I don't know who called it a "liberation" procedure: just slapping a name like that on it makes it look like quackery, like "complementary medicine". At the moment, it's generally considered too risky for uncertain benefits, and the FDA in the USA has issued a strongly-worded warning against it.

* there isn't even sufficient evidence of efficacy to allow us to call it a Theory.

later12

Has malaria been said yet?

Probably should have been eradicated by now, and will almost certainly be eradicated within our lifetimes.

Yes I do think that deserves a gay smiley face. And shure lets throw in this too.

UL_heart_throb

how?

later12

UL_heart_throb wrote: »

how?

Bill Gates, vaccines, malaria nets, and billions of dollars.

Doc Ruby

later12 wrote: »

Has malaria been said yet?

Probably should have been eradicated by now, and will almost certainly be eradicated within our lifetimes.

Hear hear, and if they could wipe out mosquitos in the process I'd take it as a kindness. Those and black flies, the only reason I haven't vanished into the Canadian wilderness for a few months yet.

UL_heart_throb

None of those things are a cure for malaria, no more than condoms are a cure for AIDs.

later12

i think there should be a rule against pedantry; at least on sundays when people like me are hungover and unable to muster more of a response than a 'wtf' face.

the_syco

jester77 wrote: »

hayfever, everyone around me is red-eyed & sneezing at the moment, very distracting. It's only pollen, not some bacteria that is forever evolving & mutating.

There's an injection that gets rid of it. Lasts for a few months.

trishasaffron

Seriously - I know this is AH but - what gets me every time with diagnosis is how unholistic it is. Just dealing with an elderly person now in hospital and every single thing is a separate test and a separate specialist - all time consuming and expensive.

Seriously (repeating myself here!) I cannot understand how come at this stage of our technological development we can't go through a compleat (sic) scanner (like an airport security scanner) that will show bone breaks, nerve issues, cancer signs etc etc.

bnt

The technology is simply limited to doing different things e.g. X-rays (including CT) picks up bones and other hard bits well, but not soft tissues. MRI scanners can, and it's amazing that they work at all if you understand what's involved. The human body's systems are so complicated that no single person (GP) can handle it all in detail. Maybe automated full body testing will become commonplace in the future, a la Star Trek, but the technology just isn't there yet.

trishasaffron

bnt wrote: »

but the technology just isn't there yet.

I know that - just saying it's amazing it isn't there yet! We are way more primitive than we realise.

ArtyM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Bat Bomb

wargames that showed Iran could take out a US carrier even with the US cheating, since then US has gotten better missile defense, but the Iranians have gotten better missiles and 200 Knot torpedos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Enjoyed that.
An ass kicking was obviously not what they expected from the exercise.

flutterflye

Whoever mentioned paralysis etc... I just came across this.
Hopefully some good will come out of it.
Chances are we'll never hear of it again though, just like most things.

Oranage2

Gerkins on a McDonalds burger - whoever came up with is a clown

flutterflye

Oranage2 wrote: »

Gerkins on a McDonalds burger - whoever came up with is a clown

That's the best bit of the burger!

Capt'n Midnight

ArtyM wrote: »

Enjoyed that.
An ass kicking was obviously not what they expected from the exercise.

It was just a clear case of playing it by the numbers vs. a bit of innovation.

Capt'n Midnight

bnt wrote: »

The technology is simply limited to doing different things e.g. X-rays (including CT) picks up bones and other hard bits well, but not soft tissues. MRI scanners can, and it's amazing that they work at all if you understand what's involved. The human body's systems are so complicated that no single person (GP) can handle it all in detail. Maybe automated full body testing will become commonplace in the future, a la Star Trek, but the technology just isn't there yet.

Also tests are expensive (one suspects that some hospitals may be tempted to require more tests to pay off the millions the equipment cost)

Also the dose of a CT scan carries a risk, and unless the risk outweighs the benefit it's immoral to subject someone to unnecessary radiation.

We aren't in the days of mass X-ray and TB where screening halved the death rate in a few years.

I'd be in favour of annual health screening of the entire population as a preventative move, catch stuff early / give relevant health advice.

annascott

socialism.

A_Sober_Paddy

Herpes...Everything stays in vegas, except herpes that sh!ts for life:D