A Sad Commentary on Modern Medicine.

[mike]

I remember reading one meta-analysis they did in which the conclusion was that giving statins to healthy people with no risk factors reduces the risk of heart attack, and thus all people should be on statins...

you have to admire the marketing skills of big pharma though --- pharma-generated medical guidelines recommend statins to anyone with diabetes and these very statins cause an increase in diabetes...not to mention the delightfully lucrative added dimension of a chronic disease...we can't cure you, but we will happily keep you/your insurance company buying our meds until you do croak --- it's right up there with MDs promoting smoking --- you CAN have your cake and eat it too (if you're big pharma)

[Culican]

Around 1980 an article by Fredric Jueneman posited his opinion in a industrial research trade magazine about cancer research. Jueneman wrote that the cure for cancer will never be found because more people now (that was in 1980) make their living from cancer than are dying from cancer. William Morris217 reenforces that opinion more than 30 years later.

In the last year or so several cancer centers have opened in the Phoenix area. The billboards and TV and radio ads are non-stop.
Obviously, there is money to be made.