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Originally Posted by duck Let me be the terrible voice of pessimism (though I SWEAR in real life, I am not nearly this ratty): Insulin was discovered in 1921, and this is how far we've gotten in 85 years of treating this disease??? | And a heart transplant is a very simple operation. Yet the first heart transplant wasn't till 1967. Today it's a common operation with nothing that couldn't be done 200 year agos. Islet cell transplants have only been a major item in the past 2 years. Although the first ones were conducted it 1977, it was unknown back then why they continually died after being transplanted. Only recently have they found ways to get them to last more than a year after the transplant. So progress is being made. If we could predict what causes every medical problem, there would be no need for any medications and everyone could take one pill every morning to give them the needed vitamins and they could live to be 100 years old easily. But we haven't discovered that, the body is made of cells, and cells come in millions of formations to produce different reactions to each other. Just like in real like. Think of diseases as segration, in that cells don't like each other so they fight when together and only one side wins.
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