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Just fyi: smh.com.au/national/health/...

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First paragraph of your link :

Just in stark economic terms, depression is eye-wateringly expensive. The Australian Psychological Society estimates that every year the disorder drains $12.6 billion from the local economy, and accounts for the loss of six million working days.

Doctors don't look for the cause of people's health problems in many cases, they just leap to the conclusion that people are depressed and anxious. It's so much easier than looking for the cause.

"It's the first primary prevention study that is able to be rolled out at a general population level. The beauty of it is that you've got one agent that has the capacity to prevent multiple inflammatory-related end-points – from heart disease, to diabetes, to bowel cancer, to osteoporosis.

Until recently the inflammation was thought to be a result of the illnesses ... Research now focuses on the theory that, at least in part, the inflammation actually causes the problems in the first place.

Inflammation develops for a reason, it isn't a disease in its own right. Find the cause of the inflammation and fix that, and people might actually get better.

This article by Dr Malcolm Kendrick has a lot of stuff about inflammation, and is well worth reading :

drmalcolmkendrick.org/2016/...

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Thanks for posting and this part in particular caught my attentIon:

If the studies of McNeil and Berk and the researchers conducting the other 14 ASPREE sub-studies bear fruit, the cheapness and ease of access of aspirin will represent a revolution in low cost, highly effective healthcare.

Ironically, however, aspirin's status as an out-of-patent drug has meant McNeil and his colleagues have struggled for funding to conduct their world-first clinical trial. Big Pharma has contributed not a single cent.

"Amounts of money like this are just routine for the pharmaceutical industry – they would spend much more than this assessing a drug," said McNeil.

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