I may have posted this under another thread, but it is totally true for this as well. I am an ICU RN at a large university hospital which is currently number 7 or 9 (can't recall this year) in receiving research funds from the US govt (NIH). I asked one of the professor/attending doctors about this and this is what he told me.
"The last disease that has been "cured" in the world essentially was polio. Do you know why there is no research to cure anything? Because there is no money in it. Treatment is ongoing and generates income. Cure ends the billing cycle forever."
This is nauseating, but true. Sorry to say that if you think about it, curing disease is something we never hear about unless it's the people effected "Search For The Cure" t-shirts, etc. Not so much in research.
Lori Lee