Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
In an era of unprecedented medical innovation, we have to do more to ensure that patients facing terminal illnesses have access to potentially life-saving treatments.
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.