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Game-changing new technologies and treatments are transforming the practice of medicine, dramatically altering the patient experience, and creating conditions for even more breakthroughs.
More than 40% of these treatments were for rare or difficult-to-treat conditions, including hepatitis C, meningococcal B, and metastatic melanoma.
It is estimated that about 70% of the drugs currently in development across the industry are potential “first in class” treatments, meaning that they use a completely new mechanism of action against disease.
The new wave of innovation is attributable to three key factors: the ability to personalize therapy, the capacity to get treatments to market faster, and improved engagement with patients.
Genetic markers, for example, can indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a drug, thereby improving outcomes while allowing patients to avoid potentially painful side effects of treatments that are unlikely to work.
Testing MedicineMost people are surprised to learn that rigorous application of formal rules of evidence to evaluate medical research and decide on the best treatments is a recent phenomenon.
Observational studies that compare outcomes for patients who receive particular treatments and control subject who do not rank higher, but may still be misleading.
The problem is that most of Africa is too poor to mobilize the methods of prevention (bed nets) and treatments (anti-malarial medicines) that could save millions of children every year.
Likewise, less risky treatments are crucial.
To that end, the first step is to acknowledge governments’ vital role in the development of new treatments and drugs.
Yet, with better treatments for HIV becoming available, women are now surviving HIV only to die from cervical cancer.
And, given that even high-income countries struggle to meet the cost of cancer treatments, prevention is clearly a far more efficient option.
But we would be foolish to think we have seen the last of SARS, and it will take time for scientists to develop diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines.
For TB, this might mean longer gaps between checkups for patients who adhere to treatment and show no signs of drug resistance, while those experiencing side effects or who require more complex treatments could receive more intensive care.
As a result, these efforts reduced the cost of annual HIV treatments from more than $10,000 per patient in 2001 to less than $100 in 2016.
While the TB response has leveraged strategic partnerships to expand coverage, large gaps remain, the largest being treatments for children and patients with drug-resistant TB.
Kim Jong-il was said to have died suddenly of a heart attack, though he had been dying of cancer for some time – a subterfuge aimed at concealing Kim Kyong-hui’s de facto leadership during her brother’s cancer treatments.
From nanotechnologies that make possible new types of microelectronics and medical treatments to additive manufacturing systems (better known as 3D printing), emerging new materials and methods are set to revolutionize how products are designed and made.
The case for further testing of Chisti’s alternative bubble CPAP delivery system – not to mention its implementation in places where alternative treatments are not available – is clear.
Benefit-sharing may be fair in that it includes giving special assistance to research participants, such as access to medical care or to new treatments stemming from the research, but it may be unfair in failing to define the recipients of such benefits.
The world urgently needs new drugs to replace the antibiotics, anti-malarial regimes, anti-retroviral AIDS and HIV medications, and tuberculosis treatments that are losing effectiveness.
And, finally, we need to develop new treatments that use alternative doses and combinations of existing drugs.
But the effectiveness of TB treatments is declining, raising concerns that drug-resistant strains are becoming more virulent.
The R&D burden must be shared among the public and private sectors, and resulting treatments must be universally adopted and available.
But we cannot simply ignore the role that intellectual property plays in the creation of new treatments.
Unfortunately, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which is any TB resistant to the traditional treatments of isoniazid and rifampicin, represents a serious challenge: because standard treatment is less effective in curing it, its transmission continues.
MDR-TB was inversely associated with successful treatments.
But such treatments will mean little if they are not affordable or accessible to ordinary people.
And, by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the aging process, it could also guide us toward treatments and cures for other diseases – including those affecting the young.
Many expensive treatments are beneficial.
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