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To: LindyBill who wrote (1778)	10/26/2008 4:40:35 PM
From: jrhana	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 39298

<Never about "curing" heart disease> Not at all meaningful actually. In less you mean a cardiac transplant. Once your heart is damaged, it's damaged. Using techniques like these guys are developing you can make the damaged heart function better. Which of course, why prevention in cardiovascular disease is all the more crucial. Once you've had your heart attack or stroke, there's no going back. Of course you can prevent damage in people with arterial or coronary disease prior to an ischemic event. The interventionalists (cardiologists and radiologists) are working very hard on exactly that. They don't lack for funds Cancer is actually a whole multitude of dozens of very complicated diseases so I don't know that the figures for cancer in the table really have much significance. If you want to investigate a rare but complicated disease you are going to have to spend a lot more money per patient to make any progress. Heart disease is extremely common so most cardiac patients fall into large and rather well defined groups. So a smaller amount of money will go towards a much large group of patients in the case of cardiac disease. Plus who is a heart patient? Anybody who has had a little chest pain? They have probably greatly exaggerated the number of patients with significant cardiac disease to arrive at their figures. The "Fair" Foundation is anything but IMO. The whole subject is extremely complicated so flying off the handle at one stupid table designed to further an agenda based on ignorance is inappropriate. Maybe you could argue we should spend less money on AIDS-but good luck with that one politically. I think there are other more crucial issues to spend ones time on. This is a complete waste of time and excitement. And we are not preventing any cardiovascular disease or cancer by going off on a political tangent or rant. Sometimes it might be good to think things over for a while instead of going off half cocked over a very complicated situation. Or a very little knowledge not only is worse than none but can lead one far astray from what is the major mission here on this thread.

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