Croup, Typhoid Fever, and Diphtheria are diseases of the past. But check out heart disease and cancer. I wonder which diseases will top the list in 2090?
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Hey doc,
I know this is off topic, but as the importance of NIH funding came up a few weeks ago - here it is. I just got the following alert from the American Thoracic Society and thought I'd pass it along. (Just in case anyone would care to make a phone call...like NOW!)
Background
The full Senate is beginning consideration of the Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Resolution. Sens. Specter (R-PA) and Harkin (D-IA) and are offering an amendment to the bill that would provide significant new funding for health research and services, including the NIH and CDC. Specifically, the amendment would provide the NIH with a funding increase of $3.5 billion. To ensure that the amendment passes, the Congress must hear that NIH funding is a top health priority. ATS members are asked to request that their Senators vote yes on the Specter/Harkin healthcare amendment to the budget resolution. The vote on this amendment could come as early as tonight (March 22).
Action
Call or Fax your two Senators today.
You may contact your Senators offices in Washington by phone using the Capitol Switchboard. Call 202.224.3121 and ask for your Senator’s office or give your state if you do not know their name. When connected to the office, ask for the Health Legislative Assistant. If you leave a voicemail message, include your name and phone number so that the staffer can call you back. Identify yourself as a health provider from (your town) and ask your Senator to vote yes on the Specter/Harkin healthcare amendment to the FY2008 Budget Resolution.”
Talking Points:
• Without additional funding in the budget resolution, NIH may receive a small funding cut because annual NIH funding levels are not keeping pace with inflation.
• Without increased funding, the NIH will be unable to adequately respond to the explosion in biomedical research opportunities and to the public’s desire for continued progress in solving complex diseases.
Thanks, Heather!
NIH alerts are always on-topic around here.
"I wonder which diseases will top the list in 2090?"
my guesses:
space herpes
asterrhoids
zombification
just you watch....
KEVron
I know I don't visit often, but when I do you rarely disappoint ( much of your subject matter is beyond me but you always offer something for the layman)...
So the completely grasping at straws "disease" of "consumption has been almost eradicated, but is still being diagnosed? I can only assume there is a sanitorium extant somewhere staffed by mustache-twirling doctors and corseted nurses now discussing how magnets might be employed to mitigate the imbalance of humors and whether they have enough fainting couches.
It seems clear that, given the advances in scientific knowledge and the statsitics shown, what was once believed to be death by diarrhea was probably in fact a misdiagnosis of heart disease on account of looking at the wrong end of the patient--an understandable mistake.
But for all this good news I have to admit to some confusion. Though it makes perfect sense that death from apoplexy has risen (just look at the headlines and the actions of our politicians--is it any wonder?)it seems that no-one dies from simply being too old to serve any further biological or social need--at least not until they have named a replacement.
I also note with great consternation that whilst 488.2 per 100,000 people DIDN't die from "Other" in 1890, in 1990 248.8 DID. Furthermore Just what the hell are you scientific types playing at? I'd suggest you stop trying to make rats live longer and cloning sheep and sending monkeys into space and whatnot and concentrate on "Other". If you can make some progress on that disease, then maybe you can expect some additional funding for "Misc." which is another plague you white-coated ivory-tower intellectuals can't be bothered to examine without getting a paycheck for your efforts.
Jeez. No wonder there's so little faith in science!
Hiya, 5th Estate and KEvrons!
Thanks for stopping by.
I'm not hitting the blogs as often as I used to either. Maybe it's the two part-time jobs.... But at least it's keeping me out of trouble.
eyedoc333 said...
I'm not hitting the blogs as often as I used to either. Maybe it's the two part-time jobs.... But at least it's keeping me out of trouble..
That's not what I've heard....
:-)
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