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2003-07-24 05:53:56 AM
Call me naive for asking this question, but I'm hoping like hell
technology will improve in the future. There are SO many diabetics and
research and money coming in from organizations, surely they'll hit on
a cure sooner or later. But how long will it take !? 10 & 20, 30 years
!? Can one have realistic expectations about a possible cure !?
Or will there never be a cure, because greedy PharmaFirms still make
lotsa money with Diabetes, so they arent even intrested in finding a
cure ?!
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Been waiting 60+ years, no cure yet. A huge amount of changes , life is
easier to live . A cure may happen, I hope so, but I doubt I'll be around.
don
"Oliver Zenker" <oliverzenker@yahoo.de>wrote in message

where is ted rosenberg
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health diabetes

On 23 Jul 2003 14:53:56 -0700, oliverzenker@yahoo.de (Oliver Zenker)
wrote:
be made just stringing us along for a lifetime. Talk about slavery or
endentured servant-hood.
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www.tcainternet.com/retired/index.html
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Oliver Zenker wrote:
treatment of Type 1 diabetes, the most severe, is found, it will leave a
lot of other sufferers.
There's no reason to assume the pharma-firms have such firm control.
Given the incentive for other people doing real work to "publish or
perish", it'll get published.
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:31:35 -0400 (EDT), treeman74@webtv.net (Edward
Krawetz) wrote:
very busy, and would be back posting soon. That was a while back. I
hope he is OK.
Sleepy
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Well i for one will keep my fingers crossed.
and say i think the government does have some motivation
to find a cure. I wonder how much it cost to take care of
all those diabetics on public assistance. or the
impact on health insurance costs.
it is nice to think it is possible and just might happen.
--
www.diabetes.org
Sushi-Boy
Type - 2 ---
Dx'd January 27, 2003
A1C = 5.1 July 15
also try
alt.support.diabetes.uk
misc.health.diabetes
"Oliver Zenker" <oliverzenker@yahoo.de>wrote in message news:81cd6123.0307231353.1d3c826c@posting.google.com...
: Call me naive for asking this question, but I'm hoping like hell
: technology will improve in the future. There are SO many diabetics and
: research and money coming in from organizations, surely they'll hit on
: a cure sooner or later. But how long will it take !? 10 & 20, 30 years
: !? Can one have realistic expectations about a possible cure !?
: Or will there never be a cure, because greedy PharmaFirms still make
: lotsa money with Diabetes, so they arent even intrested in finding a
: cure ?!
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 02:31:21 GMT, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel@verizon.net>wrote:
misrepresenting the abilities of the profession. The patient goes in
expecting miracles and may be very disillusioned.
I have had two good docs--one said--"I am not God"-- the other said
"I can do nothing about that problem"..
The arrogance of many I have dealt with is amazing. In my opinion,
a real educated person knows the limits of our pea brain. The
chairman of an University department used to lecture students with the
following ideas.
As you get educated, you will know less. You are climbing the mountain
of knowledge and can see further. Will be able to see what we don't
know.
Another of his themes was you will know less when you graduate than
you know now.
The total knowledge is accumulating faster than you can learn.
If you want absolute knowledge talk to some PR person, a salesman,
a TV commentator, or some of our trolls, or some spammer with all of
the "wordlogy" with the absolute cure from high on some mountain.
Most research is not a TV script, but a lot of sweat, frustration,
lack of proper funding, We need to spend the money to educate those
that will become real scientists,
We will get there but I doubt if much will come from the stock brokers
looking at the bottom line next month. Or the bull manager saying you
will have to invent this by next friday.
WE are away ahead of twenty years ago. The finding of a "penicillin"
for diabetes is very unlikely.
Guy
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good call none the less.
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sqArk wrote:
amputation.
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sqArk wrote:
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net>wrote:
"cures" to the list.
Regards,
James the Elder
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sqArk <zonk@birds.fly>wrote:
completely immune to a disease, that's a cure for the disease.
Regards,
James
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Guy <gswil@intertex.net>wrote:
Ever read the whole story of "Typhoid Mary" Mallon? (Yes, she was a _real_
person!)
history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa062900a.htm
You have to keep reminding yourself as you read that all of this occurred
almost 100 years ago!
Regards,
James the Elder
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"Oliver Zenker" <oliverzenker@yahoo.de>wrote in message
cure in 5 years". Trouble is, no-one knows WHICH 5 years :-)
I don't REALLY think that big pharma STOPS the cure being found, I thik it's
a massive problem because finding a cure usually comes after finding the
cause, and no-one's managed to do that yet.
Beav (relatively happy that there's at least TREATMENT)
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"Edward Krawetz" <treeman74@webtv.net>wrote in message
Beav
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Beav, A very precise answer.
Guy
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:07:39 GMT, "Beav"
<beavis.original@ntloxoworld.com>wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:00:28 -0500, Guy <gswil@intertex.net>wrote:
posted in reference to a certain "demented" fundie, who used his right
to speak his mind, to say that people with AIDS should be quarantined.
SM
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sqArk wrote:
problems if they didn't.
Ya just can't fool Mother Nature.
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In article <ZD0Ua.12702$634.12350@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>,
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net>wrote:
the others either involve removal or destruction of diseased
tissue, rebuilding of tissues where there is an adequate base
still working, or infectious disease. Neither type of diabetes
falls in these categories.
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This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views
are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Deptartment of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558
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Herman Rubin wrote:
the University of West Virginia controlling the immune system in animals
to turn off the factor that causes it to attack beta cells. After
disabling that factor, the animals own adult stem cells formed new beta
cells and cured the animals' diabetes.
Exciting stuff!
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