hoping for a cure?

Yes I hope for that :)

I always say that if I ever win one of those crazy lotto prizes I will donate a huge chunk to help cure Crohn's :p Wouldn't that be nice!!!

(Of course, I'm also holding out for a cure for Type 1 diabetes)

I have to say I'm pretty skeptical about it (but I still have hope)... it seems that there isn't much interest in creating a cure but in creating maintenence drugs

why do I think that? CDAI is still the main criteria in research ...

and just look at cancer... it's been 38, soon to be 39 year since the National Cancer Act was signed by Nixon but little progress was gained ...

cancer mortality is only 10 % lower than in the seventies, mostly due to preventive care ...

Yes, there will probably be a cure someday. Think of all the past horrific diseases we hardly hear about: measles, mumps, TB, etc. As David T. Rubin, a distinguished GE said, "There is no better time to have IBD than now." There's tons of research going on. The number of new treatments available now compared to just 10 years ago is impressive.

Tons of progress has been made in cancer research too. As Lance Armstrong said, "If I'd gotten cancer 10 years ago, I'd be dead."

I agree with GDen.
I also know someone that is in cancer remission,who would not be around if he had his type 10 years ago.
I personally think Crohn's disease is costing insurance companies big bucks,which will work well for a cure.
Or at least advance treatments, procedures,diets.

I'm not very positive either. I haven't seen us be able to cure much of anything, prevent yes, treat yes, cure no. Sadly I think it's more profitable for them to have us keep buying treatments then anything that would cure us.

Even with Cancer, my Mom has been in remission for 10 years now. Which we are grateful for. However we can't say she is cured, we've been told it can return at any time. Even though her chances are looking better now as time goes on. I wish they could find cures for a lot of things!

I am fairly sure Crohn's will be gone in the next 10 - 15 years. Progress has been made in this disease - it was once thought of as an autoimmune disease and now researchers think an infective agent is involved. Infliximab made a big difference to the management and treatment of the disease and it is still a relatively new treatment. I honestly believe that Prof Hermon-Taylor / Prof Borody will bring another major breakthrough once they have raised funds to develop their anti-map treatments that have helped the lives of so many already.

I really hope there is a cure someday... I'm only 19, so I've got some time to wait :) gotta keep thinking positive...

There is hope but there is danger too. I feel that the technology to do gene manipulation will develope to cure this but what do you think powerful people or people who want to be powerful will do with this power? You could create far worse than you could cure! We also need to get away from fascism. ie corporate power. AS was said above, Pharma makes too much money keeping us sick. They have no interest in cures that will upset their bottom line $$$$. We have to have gov't, university or some other way of doing research and applying what we have learned............

We shall overcome my friends

Post Edited (FunGuy) : 12/2/2009 11:23:31 PM (GMT-7)

There is at least one possible cure presently in clinical trials. The trial is being run on type I diabetes patients, but it may apply to many other autoimmune illnesses. Of course, it is not being done by big pharma. It is not surprising, considering that businesses design their efforts to produce a continuing stream of income and a cheap cure would be a hard sell to the research and marketing departments.

GDen since you asked: In 2000 a Joint Economic Comittee of congress found that of the 21 drugs with the highest therapeutic impact on society introduced between 1965 and 1992, public funding was "instrumental" for 15. It took me about two minutes to research the answer to your "question".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health

Perhaps you should google some of your rhetorical questions instead of accepting as fact the ejaculations of Rush and Glen?

You might re-consider your sources of information which have a vested interest in brain washing folks who do not carefully weigh what they are being told. With such faith in private industry perhaps you would enjoy driving a Ford Pinto with good brakes??

In any event I look great in tin foil. Around christmas I spruce up with colorful foil wrapping paper.

please dont involve politics in this... there are some of us that dont live in the states and do not want to constantly read your petty squables about the "radical left" and the "radical right"

I do not believe in conspiracies, but I do know how the system works and thats why I feel its not effective ... pharma companies pay doctors to do the research the companies want and pay for their science symposiums and thats why when you look at the abstract list for a symposium you dont see any papers on LDN or worms or MAP ... and all of those are publicly or goverment funded