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Pattern Recognition Software Enables MS Blood Test
ProteomicsWizard writes "Using proteomic spectral pattern recognition software, scientists have described a way to diagnose Multiple Sclerosis from a blood sample. The technology is applicable to other diseases including various cancers. With the technology available for identifying uncureable diseases before they manifest themselves, would you want to know?"
'Scuse me while I puke.
Dammit, is there no sense of trying to do a public service without charging an arm and a leg just to be able to read that maybe, 10 years down the road after they and the FDA have seen to it that all the money they can milk out of the test proof has been spent, there maybe might be a test for it thats quick, simple and no more invasive than me checking my sugar?
I have no argument with paying for the product, and/or test materials, ever. The people who do the research really should be able to recoup the salaries and such for the people who actually develop this stuff.
But thats when they actually have a product, and not a second before.
To charge me 40 dollars + tax just to read the paper once, is IMO just plain greedier than Boss Hog ever thought on being.
If they want money thrown their way to finance the rest of the proof to the FDA, all those blind tests etc, then they should make the publicity they are trying to generate easy to get by making it freely readable so the victims can go lobby their congress critters while they still can for a bag of support money to facilitate the proof, or dis-proof as the case may be. To charge these folks $40 for a word of hope is IMO, downright criminal and I hope St. Peter keeps the gates tightly locked when its their turn.
Where am I coming from?
Easy, I watched a first cousin lay in a bed living on a IV drip for the last 20 years of her life. First diagnosed when she was about 22, lived to be 66 IIRC. Yes, she had a careing mother who, when she could no longer physically care for her as she neared her own 75th birthday, had the means to see to it she was properly cared for for the next 15 years until she finally passed, having spoken maybe 3 words in the last 20 years of her life and those with extreme amounts of effort. Trapped with an apparently sound mind in a body she couldn't control. For her it was not living, it was a living hell.
No one should profit from anothers misery before they have a product that has the potential of being helpfull.
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No Cheers offered on this one, its too too maddening for words.
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