Medical Cures

The quest for a health is a natural human response to illness, but medical history provides plenty of reason to think twice before you try that miracle cure - Olivia B. Waxman

Medical Cures
Medical Cures

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What's Holding Back Cures? Our Collective Ignorance (And No, Not A Pharma Conspiracy)

The birthers, it turns out, aren’t the only ones with wacky conspiracy theories; evidently a lot of people out there really think there are cures “They” don’t want you to know about. In particular, there seems to be a surprisingly pervasive belief that drug companies aren’t working on cures for disease because it’s far more profitable to chronically maintain patients on medication. This also explains (so the reasoning goes) why drug companies offer so many incremental therapeutics, and so few revolutionary treatments.

If only this explanation were true.

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 What's Holding Back Cures? Our Collective Ignorance (And No, Not A Pharma Conspiracy)

The unfortunate truth is that drug companies really want to cure disease, but rarely know how. Medical science simply isn’t up to the challenge. Most diseases aren’t well enough understood to enable the rational development of truly transformative treatments.

3 Strange Treatments Doctors Used to Think Were Good for You

TIME spoke to Kang about some of the practices once touted as good medicine that are well known to be harmful today.

30 Strange Old-Timey Medical Treatments

Radium was once considered a legitimate medical treatment. The ailments it supposedly cured included arthritis, impotence, and aging.

5 Diseases That May Be Cured Within Our Lifetime

Thanks to clinical research and the dedicated efforts of medical professionals, many diseases have been eradicated over the last 100 years. Modern treatments exist for smallpox, polio and leprosy, and researchers have even developed therapies for previously fatal illnesses such as pneumonia.

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

It’s hard to keep up with the treatment recommendations coming out of the medical community. One day something is good for you, and the next day it’s deadly and should be avoided.

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Today's buzzy remedies can be dubious, from the Food Babe's diets to hot new studies that promise to make everything okay. But these medical miracles from the past century were a curse.

Cures Within Reach

Cures Within Reach’s mission is to leverage the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of testing already approved therapies for new indications that improve patient quality and length of life, serving philanthropic and/or commercial uses – driving more treatments to more patients more quickly.

FasterCures

FasterCures, a Washington, D.C.-based Center of the Milken Institute, is driven by a singular goal – to save lives by speeding up and improving the medical research system. As a nonprofit, non-partisan think tank, we are uniquely positioned to receive input from all stakeholders and make informed, autonomous decisions when prioritizing program and project initiati

Cure International

Join us in providing life-changing surgery and the love of Jesus to children worldwide living with treatable disabilities.

Project Cure

Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. Since our humble beginnings in a garage in Colorado, Project C.U.R.E. has become the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries.

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