What disease is most important to cure?

[fedupfisherman]

AIDs? Multiple Sclerosis? Breast Cancer?

What disease/condition do you think is more important to cure or eliminate?

[Deja Q]

1. MS and autism

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Thanks Toad!

As an MS sufferer, i appreciate that. It's unbelievable how many people i know figure MS isn't that bad because i still have a job and can function.

It's a pernicious, chronic, and nasty disease and it's good to hear that someone else understands.
The Professor

[Ellen Forradalom]

30. Professor!

Haven't seen you in a while! How are you?

[midlife_mo_Jo]

36. Real diseases?

Milaria and diabetes would be near the top of my list. I'd have to think about it.

I"d like to see pregnant women STOP DRINKING and doing drugs! Alcohol related neurological defects cause so much damage to families and societies, and most people are so unaware of it. It's believed that many people in prison have ARND, which causes poor dicision making, lower IQs, emotional illnesses, etc. The emotional and financial toll on families is just so immense, and the and emotional and financial toll on the public is terrible, as well. And it's completely preventable.

[AndyTiedye]

45. Autism is Genetic

There isn't going to be a cure for autism because it is genetic.

We need to make it work for us more than it works against us.

[azmouse]

2. Republican stupidity.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. HIV

its creating havoc and further poverty across the globe.

[Squatch]

4. Stupidity.

Unfortunately, our education system is ill-equipped to handle this epidemic.

[Drifter]

16. That's what I was looking for ...

Cheers
Drifter

[wuushew]

5. malaria followed by AIDS

[fishnfla]

6. ignorance eom

[IDemo]

7. Diabetes, but I'm biased

[lynnertic]

8. Avarice

[The2ndWheel]

9. Whatever the next one is after we cure those

[Dora]

10. Hunger

It's preventable, easily treated, and there's no mystery to its cause or its cure.

Just add food.

[W_HAMILTON]

11. Cancer.

All types.

[zippy890]

12. Depression

Depression/mental illness causes more health problems than any other illness

[BlueGirlRedState]

13. ovarian cancer

It's hard to say one is worse than another, but this strikes close to home for me.

My best friend died from this three months ago. There's no test until it's too late.

[Occulus]

14. Aging. n/t

[Warpy]

15. Worldwide? Malaria

which is the main disease that holds much of the third world down and back.

After that, HIV.

Both diseases affect healthy young adults, robbing cultures of their most productive members.

[warren pease]

17. Bigotry

[NMMNG]

35. I second that

:thumbsup:

[Clark2008]

18. Moronitis.

It effects nine out of every 10 Republicans.

[OwnedByFerrets]

20. Fascism...nt

[dkofos]

21. Stupidity

[Hubert Flottz]

22. Greed!

It's the # 1 killer of all time and it's alive and well today.

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. Conservatism.

Retroactive to 2000.

[truebrit71]

24. Republicanism.

...it destroys the soul, blinds you to the truth and turns you into a greedy malcontent...

[Roon]

25. All types of cancer and hiv

Like someone else on this board said, I am biased.

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. Dementia Republicanus. nt

[LeftishBrit]

27. Many of them...

Cancer (all forms); TB; malaria; AIDS.

[redqueen]

28. Selfishness. It is the root of all evil, IMO.

[valerief]

29. War. nt

[Ellen Forradalom]

31. All of the Above

I can't possibly play favorites with suffering.

[HamdenRice]

32. Malaria

Probably in terms of its economic impact on the ability of poor countries to develop, malaria is the worst. Curing malaria would probably give the world the biggest bang for its buck.

[AngryAmish]

33. Heart disease -- #1 killer in the world

HIV is treatable but the world does not care enough to get proper treatment and prevention (!!!) to those that need it most.

[Mnemosyne]

34. Depression first please..

Depression among world's worst illnesses: study

By Jennifer Macey

Posted Sat Sep 8, 2007 2:32pm AEST

Depression is not only emotionally debilitating - a new study has found it's more physically damaging than many chronic diseases.

Researchers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have studied data from 250,000 people in 60 countries.

One finding from the study is that people who suffer depression on top of a disease such as angina, asthma, arthritis or diabetes fare worse than if they only had the physical condition.

Experts say better treatment for depression would greatly improve people's overall health.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/08/2027566.htm

[ThomWV]

37. Malaria

[Beelzebud]

38. It depends on what disease the person you're asking has.

In reality all are equally important to find cures for.

I'm sure you'll get very different answers depending on who you ask.

[Vinca]

39. Uninsureditis. nt

[librechik]

40. obesity--leads to every other damn thing--heart disease, diabetes,

on and on...

[ThomWV]

42. In the rest of the world that statement would be seen as comical - starvation rules most places

[librechik]

44. I know! I felt a bit rueful writing it.

but there you are...

[ThomWV]

49. I would have agreed with you completely if the question had been limited to the US

And the sickness of obesety goes deeper than just the physical well being of fat people. It speaks much more to a wasteful society and to plain old simple stupidity as well.

[Ellen Forradalom]

52. Not necessarily. Obesity is becoming agribiz' #1 export.

See the latest Scientific American for an article on the globalization of obesity. :-(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

50. only if the US is the entire world

[OzarkDem]

41. Cancer - it kills more people in the US than anything else n/t

[slackmaster]

46. Nope

Heart disease has it beaten.

http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html

[slackmaster]

43. Cardiovascular disease by far

The three you mention aren't even in the top 10 (though cancer in general is #2).

Roll your own query at:

http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html

[Katherine Brengle]

47. Ignorance. No, but seriously, I'm not sure...

Cancer of all kinds. AIDS. MS.

I don't really think any one disease or group suffering deserves preference, but obviously some are more epidemic than others.

[Phillycat]

48. Anyone who DOESN'T have malaria and/or HIV in their answer lives in

a tiny, America-centric world.

[Dora]

55. I'm glad to know you think that. nt

[Netbeavis]

51. Cronyism

[bobbolink]

53. Poverty. It's killing more people, in a very ugly way, and is ignored.

[opihimoimoi]

54. GOP-ISM...its gone Ebolaesque...highly contagious and deadly to the Mind...

Makes you think in reverse....Good is Bad and vice versa......

[lukasahero]

56. Why do we have to choose?

I'm sure the world can multi-task.

[spoony]

61. Best answer.

[eagler]

57. hate

[opihimoimoi]

58. I Like that...sending beer and a whole LUAU

[Nye Bevan]

59. dislxeia (tn)

[Goblinmonger]

60. Erectile Disfunction

It affects rich old white guys, right? Need I say more?