"Parkinson's disease is more common than thought"

[Zardoz]

An article in USA Today makes the point that PD isn't going to get solved soon without the serious investment that only the government can make.

An earlier study from the Michael J. Fox Foundation and others found that Parkinson's costs the U.S. $52 billion every year and will cost $80 billion annually by 2037.The federal government now spends over $200 million a year to address Parkinson's. But Okun said that an investment of $3 billion a year is what's needed to find viable treatments, better understand the disease and hopefully learn to prevent it.More research funding also helps attract more scientific talent to the field, Beck said. "If they see it's going to be hard to do research in Parkinson's because there's not a lot of money there, they're going to go into something else."

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[kind2animals]

There seems to be a high likelihood of a corrupting effect brought about by the introduction of public monies such that simple low-cost solutions will be overlooked in favor of lots of research leading to the most expensive solutions.I mean look at what’s just happened with Covid. Big Pharma caused early treatment with inexpensive re-purposed drugs to be taken off the table to ensure that only new and much more profitable treatments were available. A crime against humanity if you ask me.