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What do you think a more appropriate funding level should be? Not to say that we shouldn't fund more, but Alzheimer's (as a single disease) receives some of th
by icegreentea2 2y ago
What do you think a more appropriate funding level should be?
Not to say that we shouldn't fund more, but Alzheimer's (as a single disease) receives some of the highest funding levels from the NIH. Looking at https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spending#/ https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spending#/ (categories are non-exclusive btw), Alzheimer's is 'outranked' by like... cancer (all of cancer at 8 billion 2024 vs 3.8), all of infectious diseases (8 billion again), and all of 'rare diseases' (6.8 billion). All of women's health, and mental health also get ~4.5 billion of funding.
- rowanG077 2y agoConsidering Alzheimer is worse then all the other on the list I would say it should be the largest by a huge margin. Maybe 20 billion?
- dgacmu 2y agoCancer of all forms kills 5x more people per year in the US, so could you provide a more clear definition of what you mean by worse? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Cancer is terrible, Alzheimer's is terrible (and I'm glad I don't have to be the one making the funding allocation)
- rowanG077 2y agoCancer is worse by deathrate. I would say alzheimer is much worse in terms of human suffering. Cancer doesn't slowly hollow your soul out but Alzheimer does. That to me makes Alzheimer much worse.