As a physician and researcher, I look at these and see two categories: poor decision-making and genuine molecular biology problems. Heart disease, COPD, and ty

As a physician and researcher, I look at these and see two categories: poor decision-making and genuine molecular biology problems. Heart disease, COPD, and type 2 diabetes are tractable now. Eat less, don't smoke, exercise. The other diseases are horrible luck played out at the molecular level. Type I diabetes belongs in this other category. HIV treatment is pretty well at a management phase. A vaccine would be great, but this goes to the general problem of human molecular biology still being not entirely known. Funding is to some extent molecular biology research. Cancer is a molecular biology problem. Same as HIV. Neuromuscular diseases are molecular biology problems. My dad has prostate cancer. I'm working on prostate cancer. But the studies involves pathways in the embryogenesis of fruit flies and tested in zebra fish, and a lot of the work on these pathways has been funded by breast cancer research, agriculture companies, DoD looking for dual use agents, all sorts of weird cross-talk. Meh.