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> Many conditions are well adressed by informing and training those at risk how to best take care of themselves. I had that bucketed in with letting the body h
by wins32767 4y ago
> Many conditions are well adressed by informing and training those at risk how to best take care of themselves.
I had that bucketed in with letting the body heal itself.
I fully agree that there is a big gap between how medicine is delivered and what kind of overall care people need to be maximally healthy. It's what my current company does actually!
But with respect to diseases like Alzheimers, supportive care isn't going to cut the mustard in meaningfully impacting disease progression, you need drugs for that. And if you need drugs, the way the current regulatory regime operates, you need to have a shot at turning multiples of a billion in profit post-approval to pay back the development costs of the approved drug and all the drugs that failed to get approved.