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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!
Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.
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.
If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
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.