• CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿
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    611 months ago

    I thought like you until I realised medicine is for the rich. Even in countries with universal healthcare there’s rationing of advanced therapies.

    • Years 10-20 - Human drug trials
    • Years 20-30 - Rich people use it.
    • Years 30-40 - Appears in universal healthcare systems.
    • Years 40+ - Appears in the UK NHS.

    There’s a few promising senesance drugs in trials but that means you and I won’t see it until 2060 at the earliest.

    • @Fedizen
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      411 months ago

      rich people also try some weird shit. Wasn’t the main reason radium got banned was because some rich guy died of radium water or something?

      • @CurbsTickle
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        311 months ago

        Bingo.

        Not the fact that it was killing women using radioactive paint in watch factories.

        It was Ebenezer Byers drinking radium water, that’s what brought the hammer down.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Check out D&Q the first senessent cell clearance treatment, it’s not that expensive.

      Also, governments (except the USA it seems) will help getting everybody in good health, the economic benefits are enormous.

      I’m so tired with this nonsense that only the rich will be getting it, it’s not true. Check out all other treatments, who are for the ultra rich only?

      If you can reverse aging, will you only sell it to a bunch of billionaires, or to billions of people? Of course you’ll earn more money selling it to basically every human being on the planet.