Poll: Many people don't know about the cure for aids

[Kenjitsuka]

Hilarious comic, Ganryu
Indeed, reporting news is unfortunately not as objective an occupation as the average person might think. See Fox "News"

 

[WhiteTiger225]

It is possible to develop a better cure, but most American medical research is geared toward more profitable enterprises...such as making women's boobs bigger...sometimes I hate capitalism.

............................ wow there was so much untrue said there and so much contradicting itself I won't even begin to rant about it because I have a dopped up father to drive to his home from the dentistry... when I get back.. you are getting an earfull...

 

[Stalk3rchief]

One positive result is not a cure, even if expenses were not a problem. Plus, I see this as more of a side effect. Let's say you have chronic hepatitis C and hepatic non metastatic cancer and you get a liver transplant... wow, I just cured hep C on a gaming forum. Oh wait, maybe I cured hepatic cancer. Damn, big dillema. You my friend are propagator of this:

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That's one way to look at it I guess. That IS why added the option of saying that the article doesn't qualify as a cure.
The thing is, they cured a man of aids, just by doing at transplant with the rare aids-proof gene. Or something along those lines.
I think it's at least good to know it's been done, they found a method that can work and has before, and that enough is good headway.
I'm NOT saying all aids are cured, hallelujah and what have you.
I just think even one man being cured is pretty important.
I might be wrong, and I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything.

 

[Uncompetative]

News to me. Thanks for the info...

 

[Ganryu]

Ummm, is changing a part in your car the same as fixing that part? 'cuz that's what they did, they gave that guy new bone marrow which in turn gave him a new immune system.

 

[Signa]

I remember hearing about this. It was so impractical that I dismissed it as a fluke. Good for him though, because aids no longer has a 100% mortality rate and he got to be that guy.

 

[DoW Lowen]

American medical research cares more about making money from ensuring a person can live with the disease comfortably than from actually curing it. Hence, no word about a cure when more money can still be made off the medicine prescribed to dull the effects.

You have no idea how true that is, a certain type of nut I think, may have been a vegetable, but anyway - the nut is found to drastically reduce the likelihood of having cancer but Americans have outlawed it's growth.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

American medical research cares more about making money from ensuring a person can live with the disease comfortably than from actually curing it. Hence, no word about a cure when more money can still be made off the medicine prescribed to dull the effects.

You have no idea how true that is, a certain type of nut I think, may have been a vegetable, but anyway - the nut is found to drastically reduce the likelihood of having cancer but Americans have outlawed it's growth.

Wait, what!?
Do you have a link for this?
I'd love to read up on that.

 

[DoW Lowen]

American medical research cares more about making money from ensuring a person can live with the disease comfortably than from actually curing it. Hence, no word about a cure when more money can still be made off the medicine prescribed to dull the effects.

You have no idea how true that is, a certain type of nut I think, may have been a vegetable, but anyway - the nut is found to drastically reduce the likelihood of having cancer but Americans have outlawed it's growth.

Wait, what!?
Do you have a link for this?
I'd love to read up on that.

I'm sorry but I read it in "The Big Issue", and independent magazine in Australia. If I find a link somewhere I'll PM you.

 

[WolfThomas]

Wheres the option for "I heard about them doing something like this in Africa, with HIV immune prostitutes...like last year"?

Because I swear I've known about the bone marrow transplant thing for a while.

 

[somekindarobot]

One positive result is not a cure, even if expenses were not a problem. Plus, I see this as more of a side effect. Let's say you have chronic hepatitis C and hepatic non metastatic cancer and you get a liver transplant... wow, I just cured hep C on a gaming forum. Oh wait, maybe I cured hepatic cancer. Damn, big dillema.

Not to mention many people might reject the transplant, essentially killing them quicker.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

Wheres the option for "I heard about them doing something like this in Africa, with HIV immune prostitutes...like last year"?

Because I swear I've known about the bone marrow transplant thing for a while.

Tadaaaaa!
I added that option in your exact words.
lol.

 

[CIA]

American medical research cares more about making money from ensuring a person can live with the disease comfortably than from actually curing it. Hence, no word about a cure when more money can still be made off the medicine prescribed to dull the effects.

"If you had demanded that the N.I.H. solve the problem of polio not through independent, investigator-driven discovery research but by means of a centrally directed program, the odds are very strong that you would get the very best iron lungs in the world - portable iron lungs, transistorized iron lungs - but you wouldn't get the vaccine that eradicated polio." - Samuel Broder, former director of the National Cancer Institute

I think that sums it up.

(Remembered that from a West Wing episode)

Also My second source said this may not get rid of HIV completely and also it is almost impossible to find donors who have the immunity from both parents.

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/14/not-the-cure-for-aids/

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2648728,00.html

 

[cathou]

No, I hadn't heard about that, but then, I'll never contract HIV, so I can't say I have any real interest in a cure.

Call me when they cure all types of cancer (which I have the possibility of getting.)

you may have less chance of getting it, but nobody have 0 chance of getting infect in their life.


anyway that's a step in the good direction, but it's far from cured...

 

[Ganryu]

Even if they don't reject it, the immunosuppressors used in the transplant will "provide" the same low quliaty of life that people with AIDS experience even without this so called "cure". I'm not sure if the suppressing therapy is permanent or not in bone marrow transplants but it's certainly a big risk in people with an already low white cell count.

 

[TheMatt]

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[razer17]

No, I hadn't heard about that, but then, I'll never contract HIV, so I can't say I have any real interest in a cure.

Everyone has a chance of getting AIDS, even if they aren't ever going to be sexually active. You could be stabbed by a junky, or something.

 

[Skreeee]

No, I hadn't heard about that, but then, I'll never contract HIV, so I can't say I have any real interest in a cure.

Everyone has a chance of getting AIDS, even if they aren't ever going to be sexually active. You could be stabbed by a junky, or something.

Wouldn't the junky have to have stabbed himself first?

 

[AvsJoe]

Well if this is true then that's great news! But it's been a while since humanity has cured anything so I'll remain skeptical about it.