Amidst the mountains of research, and the trillions of dollars spent there have actually been medical breakthroughs which have added years to the average life expectancy of humans as well as our pets. Anti ageing drugs, knowledge of which vitamin or mineral does what. For example, when I first began to research Pd, the average life expectancy of a person with Pd was approximately 10 years after diagnosis. It is now not uncommon for PWP to live 20 or more years after diagnosis due to more knowledge of the disease. On the other hand, we are also seeing more and more younger people who have Pd. We are becoming a chemically dependent society. The following website gives a great explanation:
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/awardsrb.html
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Forty years may seem a short span in the long history of medicine, but it is within this period, beginning just after World War II, that most of the major advances have been made in biomedical research into the underlying mechanisms of human disease. Compared to what had been going on during the decades before the war, the events that occurred between 1946 and the present can fairly be termed a scientific revolution, unmatched by any earlier period in biology or medicine. Moreover, the scale and scope of research have steadily increased, and so has the capacity to investigate problems that had previously seemed unapproachable, too profound, beyond the reach of science
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michael b.