"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Another Over-Hyped Disease: USA Today indulges in angst over the paucity of preventive methods for Lyme disease. Truthfully, it just isn't common enough or deadly enough to make prevention desirable:
But an effective vaccine may prove elusive, Fish says. Companies "may not want to take on (development of) a vaccine for a disease that is treatable and has a relatively low incidence. ... It may not be economically feasible, and there are problems of liability." posted by Sydney on
8/23/2002 06:42:00 AM
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