Dr. Faustman has been considered controversial here
children with DIABETES - Research into a Cure - Dr. Faustman
but she's underwritten by Lee Iacoca, so her funding issues are less worrisome than others. Also, I've been hearing about discussions happening in the WHO to reorganize how medical R&D is paid for (with the drug comps there, too) to (and this will be wild oversimplification; I don't know that much about it) make it profitable based on health outcome rather than the number sold. This is coming from the lessons of AIDS and TB drugs, the latter killing mostly poor people who aren't under the current system very profitable.
