Allogeneic haemopoietic stem-cell transplantation is the only existing cure but is limited to specialised clinical centres and remains inaccessible for most patients.
With no existing cure for dementia, the organisers of the prize say there is a need to find ways to support a person's dignity, physical and emotional wellbeing and extend their ability to live independently.
The elimination of barriers on the European market will give patients greater access to existing cures through the Europe-wide licensing of these products.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative movement disorder with different genetic and environmental etiologies and no existing cure.
The only existing cure for these diseases is a liver transplant.
Moreover, restoration of surface SPH by inhalation of SPH, of other LCBs or with AC, reverses susceptibility and cures existing P. aeruginosa infection, suggesting that LCB inhalation might provide a novel therapeutic option to counteract pulmonary infection by bacteria.
Merck said that its drug boceprevir, when added to the existing therapy, effectively cured about two-thirds of patients with hepatitis C. That was far better than the cure rate with the existing therapy alone.
Merely preventing, diagnosing or treating these could require 100 new products—and the number could soar if diseases are genetically engineered to resist existing treatments.Miracle cure neededThis is not a problem that the private sector would solve if left to its own devices.
These applied AI systems are the kind of research that the film's Dr. Waters Paul Bettanyy) is talking about when he says he wants to use existing technology to cure cancer and save lives.
In both cases, the existence is worth having, and in both cases the impairment is not the kind of thing agents can, given existing technologies, either cure or ameliorate.
