Kanika Sethi - August 29, 2008
Some of you may have caught Deepak Chopra's show on Syrius/XM radio a few weeks ago when he spoke with Vikas Sukhatme, a renoun physician and cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School. Vikas and his wife Vidula have started a brilliant organization called Global Cures.
The mission of Global Cures is to find affordable cures for diseases by utilizing a revolutionary drug development model. They seek to leverage billion-dollar research that has been done on affordable generic and unpatented drugs and conduct clinical trials of combinations of these substances. Pharmaceutical companies, knowing that they don't stand to recover investments into these types of clinical trials, simply invest in block-buster drugs will increase their bottom line. Unlike these for-profit companies, Global Cures is a not-for-profit organization which will focus on investigating PROMISING, rather than profitable drug therapies. In addition, their funding comes from philanthropic and goverrnment sources, rather than from investors who are only looking for a return on their investments.
I met Vikas and Vidula several months ago and was truly impressed by Vidula, a quietly determined woman, who was inspired to start this organization when she lost a close friend to breast cancer. Although she was unable to stop cancer from taking her friend, Vidula is certain that the work she is doing is the key to finding an affordable cure for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. My father, who is a faculty dean at Harvard Medical School and is also a Scientific Advisor to Global Cures refers to Vikas as a "GENIUS who will soon discover cures for cancer."
If you are interested in helping Vikas and Vidula, please visit their website Global Cures and also take a few moments to nominate them to become finalists for the American Express “Members Project" so they can receive a share of $2.5 Million to support their cause.
Here's how to nominate them:
1. Go to www.membersproject.com
2. CLICK “Guest member sign up” (or if you have an Amex account, login and go to step 3)
3. ENTER:
a, First name
b. Last name
c. Email address
d. Confirm email address
e. Password (6-8 characters – at least one number and one letter)
f. Confirm password
g. Scroll down to enter security letters
4. CLICK “sign up”
5. Next screen – search for “W7DZSG” (ALL CAPS)
6. This will bring up the project, “New affordable treatments with existing drugs”
7. CLICK on “New affordable treatments with existing drugs”
8. CLICK “Nominate this project”. Screen will read, “you have nominated this project”
Thank you for your time and help! Please know that the few minutes you spend nominating Global Cures may affect the lives of countless people.
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Posted by Kanika Sethi at August 29, 2008 06:48 PM
Kanika, thanks for bringing that to my attention. It does seem to be a step in the right direction and an evolution in approach.
One of my observations is that in an attempt to lock out smaller competitors the major pharmaceutical players created a huge financial obstacle to getting things tested and approved so that only they the “established” would have the resources needed. Of course to offset this cost burden they depended on tax breaks and incentives provided by the citizens of the United States via their collective expression and institution known as government. Furthermore this system increased the costs of the products being sold back to the citizens on top of an extraordinary profit resulting in 2 cents worth of material costing $20.00.
They the pharmaceutical companies are now burdened by this cost and the system they created born of source disconcerted ego incentive. This has resulted in creation of what will eventually be known in economics 101 as and artificial economy and will eventually be changed to adhere to genuine economy principles.
The plan is to eliminate all these incentives and tax breaks so the established players cannot afford the monopoly and will not resist the changes to the system, but would be inclined to facilitate them to the system to create efficiency and an open free market, or they will go out of business. They may go out of business anyway being replaced by new holistic endeavors and joint ventures. That is what I would be advising to the investor groups.
The consumer cannot afford the current monopoly system.
It is my intent to launch a major restructuring of the disease industry to convert it into a health industry, with major new education and retraining requirements for Doctors and a new evolved intention as the impetus for medical research and understanding.
As many may have gathered there is a whole new approach and understanding as it relates to the human biochemical machine, and the intelligence behind it.
Another evolution I have been pioneering has to do with clinical trials being replaced and or facilitated by systems analysis. Where the body is viewed as programmed and engineered, information, logic and function based system. Chemical or molecular programming which involves reverse engineering the body’s operating system and processes to deduce a programming language and function. I consider the human body to be perfectly engineered. Once we understand this, one would be able to program using compounds etc. and could actually provide biochemical enhancement.
I recently wrote a think piece that evolved from some of my earlier material called
“There is no cure for disease”.
Something like this: There is no cure for disease but there is a solution. There is also no specific cause of disease; any number of factors; sub system failures, or data corruption can give rise to the conditions we label as a disease there is no specific single factor associated with a disease but a multitude. There may be some higher level subsystem failures directly attributable to a specific disease label.
To be fair in a general sense we could argue the cause of disease is imbalance, and the cure for disease is correcting the imbalance which requires awareness and application of the knowledge and understanding of the systems. Unless you were able to rewrite the foundation of physics and chemistry there could technically be no cure for disease.
Disease is simply a system failure or malfunction due to an out of balance condition.
Disease is also linked to environmental imbalance so there is that which external that needs be accommodated or corrected and brought into balance.
The quality of produce and soil in which is grown is also a factor in disease.
The production, harvesting, and processing of the raw materials needed by the body, that which we label as food is also a factor in disease. Factory farming for high profit is an element in disease.
The mind and it’s influence on biochemical processes is also a factor in disease.
Society and its policies, infrastructure and system design are also a factor in disease.
So in a sense although there is no single cure for disease there is a plurality of cure for disease, which is a broad spectrum, massive undertaking one of understanding and holistic integration and application.
Interesting-- it seems to take the steps prior to what the Clinton Foundation has done with AIDS medication. I've really admired how the Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people have access to the drugs they need to survive by having the governments pitch in as well (which makes sense when you take into account the quick turn-overs due to the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa).
Having worked on different clinical trials funded by the NIH and another by a pharmaceutical company, I can certainly attest to the fact that with the drug companies- it's the bottom line that matters most.
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