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De-worming treatments eliminate an impediment to healthy nutrition.
It appears to ease depression’s most severe symptoms within minutes or hours, even in patients who have a dismal track record with other treatments.
Psychedelic and psycholytic treatments – popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s, before research was severely restricted and interest in the clinical use of psychedelics faded – were based on the notion that the drug-induced psychological experience was essential to facilitating the psychotherapeutic process.
Indeed, pharmaceutical companies have already begun to investigate other NMDA-receptor antagonists, together with drugs that act on a different part of the glutamate system, as possible treatments for depression.
Taking advantage of it will require the rapid development and dissemination of effective diagnostic tools, novel drug treatments, and innovative vaccines, in conjunction with efforts to ensure that health-care systems are equipped to deliver the right care.
But scaling up investment in diagnostic tools and treatments for TB costs more money than has been allocated.
In countries such as the United States, broad segments of the population lack access to adequate medical treatments, and even democracy seems to be eroding.
“Octamom”: the saga of Nadya Suleman, a young single mother in Los Angeles who, having already given birth to seven children, underwent fertility treatments and is now bringing home octuplets.
Suleman does not have a decent job, but she managed to invest in costly fertility treatments and could afford many expensive cosmetic surgeries.
In the mall, or at home on the Internet, Americans acted like Nadya Suleman, too: seduced by the bag, the shoes, the beauty treatments, the vacations, and the life that the stars they admire take for granted.
To tackle these problems, we came up with an “open data/information liquidity” project, which will advocate and organize the publication, exchange, aggregation, and analysis of health data – not just general statistics, but specific data about health outcomes in terms of drugs and treatments, hospital performance, and the like.
That includes everything from nutritional information and baby care, to (ultimately) records of each person’s own health and treatments, and it starts with using new media to reach people where they live, with content that’s relevant.
Today, inadequate access to safe water and sanitation is one of the leading causes of diarrheal illness – a major killer and the reason that hundreds of millions of people take antibiotic treatments each year.
While some of that is spent in the hope that the patient will have many years to live, it is not unusual for hospitals to provide treatments costing tens of thousands of dollars to patients who have no hope of living more than a week or two – and often under sedation or barely conscious.
Unlike debriefing, there is overwhelming evidence that some talking treatments, such as cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy, is effective when applied to disorders such as depression, panic disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Sadly in mental health, effective treatments are neither swift nor easily learnt.
It seems better to concentrate on delivering effective treatments to the smaller number of people who really need them, and not on the larger number of people who don't.
Starting in the 1990’s, cytokines, drugs that stimulate bone marrow to produce infection-fighting white blood cells, began to be integrated into cancer treatments, further mitigating the risk of life-threatening infectious complications of care.
Given that childhood cancers are all rare or ultra-rare diseases, the ability of the biopharmaceutical industry to invest resources into development of new treatments is limited at best.
It is unclear, for example, if applying old economic treatments would reverse current trends.
And yet only about 250 treatments are available for these diseases.
Little is known about what causes the mutations that give rise to these congenital disorders, and treatments exist for only a few.
Second, they can reduce the burden of regulatory red tape on the very small clinical trials of new treatments for rare diseases.
Such versatility means that stem cells have the potential to regenerate damaged organ tissues and provide amazing new treatments for a range of now devastating diseases.
Investment in the development and deployment of this technology could lead to a substantial decline in unnecessary antibiotic treatments for sore throats, not to mention ease pressure on health systems and save doctors’ time.
The technology that allows us to unravel cellular and subcellular processes and mechanisms, identify the causes of diseases and develop more specific and effective treatments, and determine who is biologically related to us and to what degree combines knowledge from biology, computer sciences, information technology, and material sciences.
Each G20 country has promised to start implementing national plans to fight AMR in earnest, and to do more to promote new treatments against resistant microbes.
Beyond the G20, innovative public-private partnerships are emerging to deliver new treatments against drug-resistant killers such as tuberculosis.
Because new treatments for multidrug-resistant microbes aren’t expected to generate much return on investment, it is incumbent upon governments to make research and development in this field more attractive to private companies, and, in order to stem the development of resistance, to ensure that new drugs are not overused.
Unless new treatments become available, the tremendous progress that the world has made against malaria will have been tragically short-lived.
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