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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Flannel Boy on March 04, 2007, 01:16:26 PM

Title: Funding for Disease research per death
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 04, 2007, 01:16:26 PM

US federal money spent on research into disease per US fatality

Stroke: $2143

Heart disease: $3,649

Lower respiratory diseases (such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis): $9,495

Alzheimer's: $10,164

Kidney Disease: $10,552

Diabetes: $13,474

Cancer: $14,006

Influenza and pneumonia: $58,315

HIV/AIDS: $212,330

source: The National Center for Health Statistics and the National Institutes of Health

Title: Re: Funding for Disease research per death
Post by: TVC15 on March 04, 2007, 01:33:55 PM

Isn't it kind of hard to pin a number on cancer, since the term is an umbrella for a wide variety of different types of cancer, some much more treatable than others?  I'm sure the number is misleading, with more treatable cancers getting much less and the more menacing ones getting much more.

Title: Re: Funding for Disease research per death
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 04, 2007, 01:44:39 PM

Quote from: TVC 15 on March 04, 2007, 01:33:55 PM

Isn't it kind of hard to pin a number on cancer, since the term is an umbrella for a wide variety of different types of cancer, some much more treatable than others?  I'm sure the number is misleading, with more treatable cancers getting much less and the more menacing ones getting much more.

Don't rain on my cancer umbrella.

You're probably right, but I didn't do the calculations and am too lazy to check.

Title: Re: Funding for Disease research per death
Post by: TVC15 on March 04, 2007, 01:53:40 PM

The list also seems incomplete.  No Parkinson's?  While not fatal by itself, people with Parkinson's never get better, and they have a life expectancy significantly less than non-Parkies.