Unfortunately, as you read the various topics on this site, two things may become apparent to you. One is that things in general are taking a down-turn for the worst before they will improve, and secondly, how everything seems, and is, intimately connected and inter-related to each other. Like so with health issues, except that it is a double edged sword.

As the medical scientists are making spectacular breakthroughs around the world, so too are unprecedented threats to all Mankind coming onto the horizon. Economies effect the health of the citizens. Poorer economies fair worse in the prevention and spread of disease. Rapid world travel bring along all types of germs and viruses introducing them to human, animal and plant life which aren't biologically prepared to handle the new threats. But of course, you know that and isn't something you want to rehash on this page, but I wanted to set the stage for what's to follow here.

Within the 'Social Issues' section, I've covered AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. That was before I added the Health Issues topic. I've mentioned the spread of a very contagious deadly diseases in other sections, but this page will be more about some medical breakthroughs coming and what they may mean to the world's populace. Unfortunately, the entire world won't be sharing in the benefits of these modern 'miracles' for quite some time (see Far & Distant Future -Health Issues when available) mainly due to the economies of poorer nations.

We are going to see some breath-taking breakthroughs in medical science within the next few years. One will be the use of super-computers to design and create replacement bones in the human body. Every bone in the human body! Whether the bones, including vertebrae, are missing, deformed or unfunctional, these super-computers will be able to accurately estimate the correct proportions, weight and fit so that other manufacturing computers will be able to create the parts to order using synthetic materials already under development. NASA Research will get some of the credit for the material used. I have a feeling that it is already available, yet not mass produced. Super strong, body part friendly I believe. DNA mapping will play some large part. Something about making the material acceptable to the chemistry of the body. The ramifications of having millions of our disabled citizens whole again I need not go into here. I'll leave it to your imagination. Arthritis, although not entirely cured, will be like having a door wear out on your car, so you go in for a replacement. New fits and replacements of bones will be easily accomplished as the bones wear out or the body changes in size. Some people will actually walk again although nerve repair science will lag behind a bit.

AIDS will not be cured but prevention in the form of accepted social cautions and a so-so vaccine will make it's way into use. The super-strains of disease like TB will continue to take their toll in human lives, but governments will soon step in with strict disease contagion\ containment policies. Quarantine and firm restrictions on travel of diseased individuals will be enforced within two years, especially as the death tolls rise, despite the civil libertarians protests. The public will be appreciative of the firm measures imposed by almost all governments.

Unfortunately, I don't see cancer being all together cured within the next few years. There will be some great inhibitors introduced soon which almost make the disease completely dormat indefinitely. People will still require testing and the removal of over-generating cell growth but the new medications will arrest the further growth remarkably. There will be some problems as the new drugs can mess up normal cell replacement, so a person would have to go off them for a spell. Again the cancer can multiply in these periods. A fine line of cancer prevention and over-inhibiting of normal cell growth will have to be walked, but it still is an outstanding improvement. This will happen within two years as well.

On the one side of health issues, we have great progress in medical science, yet on the other, we have some man-made horror stories in the field about to be made public. Secret testing of vaccines, genetically engineered foods and bio-chemical weapons in Third World countries done by multi-national pharma-chem corporations, some secretly funded by our 'modern' governments. Psychology will come into more disrepute as the effects of their psycho-topic drugs like Prozac and Retilin become more apparent in the young generation raised in mental chemical soups. Especially when documented links can be demonstrated between their drugs and the anti-social and violent behaviour in the youth now becoming adults.

Unfortunately, we won't see the Nazi-like practices of the pharma-chem corporations and the psychiatric profession purged from our societies begin for around two more years. The public are waking up. The governments have financed the drug manufacturers and 'modern' mental sciences in some stupid hope of controlling their populace. We will simply change the governments. Many skeletons have yet to be exposed.

Many evil men will die in shame with blood on their hands.

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