There’s a lot of hopeful talk here these days, from Republicans and Democrats alike, about boosting funding for medical research and speeding up the drug approval process to bring hope to millions of patients across America.
But hope doesn’t always mean cure.
Forty-four years after Richard Nixon first declared a “war on cancer,” researchers have made significant advances against many deadly diseases, thanks in part to $30 billion a year in federal spending on medical research through the National Institutes of Health. Yet there are no true cures on the horizon for cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or any number of chronic conditions.
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