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The immediate economic reward of solving Alzheimer's would be enormous. There's no economics problem to solve here.
by mike_hearn 2y ago
The immediate economic reward of solving Alzheimer's would be enormous. There's no economics problem to solve here.
- ainiriand 2y agoThink about the many rare diseases that are essentially ignored, combined they are a problem but alone they do not merit any significant investment.
- PeterStuer 2y agoOnly if it involves in patent medicine. A cure or treatment based on out of patent cheap generic medicines, we can't have that.
- mike_hearn 2y agoYou can get patents on novel re-applications of existing substances, iirc. So that's not a blocker either. Besides, academic research just simply try out existing off-patent medicines to see if any work.