Haves and Have-Nots in the World of Disease

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Just as there are haves and have-nots among people, universities and nations, so are there among diseases. Prominent haves, for obvious reasons, are cancer and cardiovascular disease, and their "conquest" is one of those unassailable goals profitable for the politician seeking votes or the specialty organization collecting money. As a result, not only are cancer and cardiovascular disease between them responsible for the deaths of 70 per cent of us, but, in addition, we are never allowed to forget it.Lately there are some new haves – sickle-cell disease, multiple sclerosis, Cooley's anemia, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and sudden-infant-death syndrome, for . . .

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