What's missing in medical research? - Greg Foot
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Date: 2023-05-09
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Ridire
While I agree that more needs to be done to support comprehensive research, are you suggesting ethnic research subfields or a panacea soup of all etnicities moving forward? I foresee complications arising from both options, neither worse than the current structure but still something that should be carefully managed and financed. A lot of administration will need to be involved.
I'll be honest I thought what was missing was the drive to cure sickness rather than treat sickness. Since there is more profit to be made treating people in long drawn out schemes to gouge a steady stream of money from people rather then just curing them outright for a one off payment.
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While I agree that more needs to be done to support comprehensive research, are you suggesting ethnic research subfields or a panacea soup of all etnicities moving forward? I foresee complications arising from both options, neither worse than the current structure but still something that should be carefully managed and financed. A lot of administration will need to be involved.
I'll be honest I thought what was missing was the drive to cure sickness rather than treat sickness. Since there is more profit to be made treating people in long drawn out schemes to gouge a steady stream of money from people rather then just curing them outright for a one off payment.
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thedeathofbirth
This is interesting, however it doesn't consider the environmental effect. For instance if one's ancestors are from China but they have been living in north America since early 1800's, what then? Also in today's world we have so many different ethnicities that produce babies, what of these children when it comes to research? I think this is another clever attempt in eugenics disguised in the cloake of caring for people! This is not something new to have been discovered, we have known this since the seventies that individualized medicine is the proper way of treating people even in a very homogeneous societies.
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This is interesting, however it doesn't consider the environmental effect. For instance if one's ancestors are from China but they have been living in north America since early 1800's, what then? Also in today's world we have so many different ethnicities that produce babies, what of these children when it comes to research? I think this is another clever attempt in eugenics disguised in the cloake of caring for people! This is not something new to have been discovered, we have known this since the seventies that individualized medicine is the proper way of treating people even in a very homogeneous societies.
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non
Also the claim that it should be tested against everyone is a bit absurd many populations are distinct enough to be unique and you can't test your treatments on everyone.
The reason most of the people it's tested on are European is because the countries with the researches and funding are mostly European and there there's some effort to test on other populations but you can't expect them to go bringing in people from abroad just to have a representative from some minority group.
Larger groups should be considered, small ones not so much.
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Also the claim that it should be tested against everyone is a bit absurd many populations are distinct enough to be unique and you can't test your treatments on everyone.
The reason most of the people it's tested on are European is because the countries with the researches and funding are mostly European and there there's some effort to test on other populations but you can't expect them to go bringing in people from abroad just to have a representative from some minority group.
Larger groups should be considered, small ones not so much.
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Harshit
Many Pharma companies are not ready to invest in medicines or treatments as a whole, which many people don't suffer from. Such behaviour is going to definitely yield no help for those who suffer from the diseases. Even if a lab provides promising hypotheses and needs funding, they get almost zero resources. That is really an obstacle in medical research.
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Many Pharma companies are not ready to invest in medicines or treatments as a whole, which many people don't suffer from. Such behaviour is going to definitely yield no help for those who suffer from the diseases. Even if a lab provides promising hypotheses and needs funding, they get almost zero resources. That is really an obstacle in medical research.
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TheRodney
Also how they do the human trials. There are people who do them as their primary form of income. The issue is if they report negative responses to the medicine for the trial they are less likely to be hired for future trials. So to keep their job they often lie about negative reactions. Sorta defeating the purpose.
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Also how they do the human trials. There are people who do them as their primary form of income. The issue is if they report negative responses to the medicine for the trial they are less likely to be hired for future trials. So to keep their job they often lie about negative reactions. Sorta defeating the purpose.
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Micah
Of course, part of the problem is that funding for research, whether private or from governments, is most available in affluent, Western coutries, while developing nations with a large percentage of the world population simply don't have the surplus available to invest in researching their populations.
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Of course, part of the problem is that funding for research, whether private or from governments, is most available in affluent, Western coutries, while developing nations with a large percentage of the world population simply don't have the surplus available to invest in researching their populations.
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Pretending
It s also important to point out how under-researched women's health is. There is still a lot that doctors don t understand about women s reproductive health especially, despite how common those issues are for 50% of the population.
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It s also important to point out how under-researched women's health is. There is still a lot that doctors don t understand about women s reproductive health especially, despite how common those issues are for 50% of the population.
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Nerdlin
I thought medical research was on a volunteer basis, if mostly Europeans are volunteering then I wouldn't say it's a researcher problem I would say it's an Asian problem in that they don't volunteer themselves enough.
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I thought medical research was on a volunteer basis, if mostly Europeans are volunteering then I wouldn't say it's a researcher problem I would say it's an Asian problem in that they don't volunteer themselves enough.
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Victor
How about medical research carried out in Asia? Doesn't that skew towards Asians? It's more about the availability of scope of medicine and not some wilful negligence pandering to westerners
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How about medical research carried out in Asia? Doesn't that skew towards Asians? It's more about the availability of scope of medicine and not some wilful negligence pandering to westerners
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Sairam
Just in 5 minutes so much clear knowledge. Even textbooks ain't this informative and understandable. Such a great help and job by TED-ED. Thanks!
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Just in 5 minutes so much clear knowledge. Even textbooks ain't this informative and understandable. Such a great help and job by TED-ED. Thanks!
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asanka
The power of knowledge and money centered in Europe and N. America. So they basically focus on their people and their genes. That's inevitable.
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The power of knowledge and money centered in Europe and N. America. So they basically focus on their people and their genes. That's inevitable.
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Nyan
It's almost as if there's an institutional, deep rooted racism inside academics that is overlooked even to this day! Who would've thought?
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It's almost as if there's an institutional, deep rooted racism inside academics that is overlooked even to this day! Who would've thought?
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Banks
Its rigged for people of european descent and they're out of touch with people of other ethnicities. Well we're not surprised
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Its rigged for people of european descent and they're out of touch with people of other ethnicities. Well we're not surprised
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Sairam
Ethnicity is not only the main part of medical work but their lifestyle and genetics are. So, ethnicity might be referred.
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Ethnicity is not only the main part of medical work but their lifestyle and genetics are. So, ethnicity might be referred.
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jay
Sounds like an introduction to a medical digital monitoring system to track us on the next outbreak they create and control us
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Sounds like an introduction to a medical digital monitoring system to track us on the next outbreak they create and control us
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