Things they should have cured by now

Carter P Fly · 31-05-2012 12:39PM

With all the advances in scanning, Testing, lasers and robotics a prostate check is still a guy sticking a lubed finger up yer hole and wiggling it around.

Nothingbetter2d · 31-05-2012 12:41PM

Carter P Fly wrote: »

With all the advances in scanning, Testing, lasers and robotics a prostate check is still a guy sticking a lubed finger up yer hole and wiggling it around.

yeah but you like it dont ya?

squod · 31-05-2012 12:42PM

Sleep

JohnMarston · 31-05-2012 12:58PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Why can't they come up with an alternative to the mouse/keyboard that isn't bad for your wrists? A monitor that isn't bad for your eyes also.

I dont think we're too far off from having a 'Minority Report' style motion sensing screens, and voice recognition software that works properly.

In the meantime, fingerless weightlifting gloves give adequate wrist support if you're so inclined

celticcrash · 31-05-2012 01:08PM

Atheism with their black souls.

Rented Mule · 31-05-2012 01:12PM

davet82 wrote: »

Red heads... god love 'em, they've suffered enough

We're watching you.

Rented Mule · 31-05-2012 01:13PM

celticcrash wrote: »

Atheism with their black souls.

They go well with our handbags and shoes.

mikemac1 · 31-05-2012 01:15PM

celticcrash wrote: »

Atheism with their black souls.

Burning them cleanses their souls

Proper order

There was a thread yesterday about living in medieval times
There's a good few on AH who wouldn't be so outspoken back then

Fratton Fred · 31-05-2012 01:46PM

Unclean water.

Why is it that there are still people on this planet without easy access to drinking water.

smash · 31-05-2012 01:47PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

The one area where I feel progress has been slow is spinal injuries & paralysis.

Yea, but a few years ago scientists managed to get a frog to levitate. That was so worth it!

Nothingbetter2d · 31-05-2012 01:56PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Unclean water.

Why is it that there are still people on this planet without easy access to drinking water.

cos the filthy beggars keep washing and peeing in it

MarkHitide · 31-05-2012 02:12PM

The obsessive-compulsion to claim every expense available is rampant in certain sections of society and, despite repeated promises of a cure, still seems as prevalent as ever.

biko · 31-05-2012 02:14PM

Malaria

davet82 · 31-05-2012 02:30PM

toothaches, in this day and age ye think they could shoot a laser beam into your mouth and sort it, instead we're still yanking bone out of peoples mouthes

JohnMarston · 31-05-2012 02:45PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

gonnerhea is becoming drug resistant...

If only there was some sort of barrier one could wear to avoid it...

Nothingbetter2d · 31-05-2012 02:55PM

JohnMarston wrote: »

If only there was some sort of barrier one could wear to avoid it...

condoms are NOT 100% safe :rolleyes:

castletownman · 31-05-2012 02:59PM

People's fascination at making Jedward HUGE!

Carter P Fly · 31-05-2012 03:06PM

davet82 wrote: »

toothaches, in this day and age ye think they could shoot a laser beam into your mouth and sort it, instead we're still yanking bone out of peoples mouthes

Indeed, Dentristry is still Rip it out, Plug it up or cover it over.

Its the fact that dentists get paid so much to do it the hammer and tongs (literally) way that they havent seen any reason to change it.

clintondaly · 31-05-2012 03:09PM

Roundabouts

Tracker Mortgages

Phil Hogan

and on a serious note

Blindness & Deafness

Pherekydes · 31-05-2012 03:50PM

Acquired brain injuries.

They should have invented a device like the one Bones had in one of the Star Trek movies by now.

Conall Cernach · 31-05-2012 03:57PM

JohnMarston wrote: »

I dont think we're too far off from having a 'Minority Report' style motion sensing screens, and voice recognition software that works properly.

Voice recognition sounds great but then everyone would know when you were playing Freecell at work

uch · 31-05-2012 04:33PM

Things they should have cured by now

The Scutters after a night out in Dublin

SIR PEADO BAILOUT · 31-05-2012 04:38PM

Farting...... not da sound da smell .....i want it to be like ck1 or gucci envy ....pull your fingers out sciencetists

opinion guy · 31-05-2012 04:46PM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Genital warts.

HPV vaccine prevents much of that (though not necessarily all)

biko wrote: »

Malaria

wow surprised it took 3 pages to say that!

By a wide wide wide margin the thing we should have eradicated a long time ago is polio. The things was all but wiped out. But due to muppets and their wars etc its now making a comeback.

Pakistan, Congo...I'm looking at you guys :mad:

Scruffles · 31-05-2012 06:03PM

cure neurotypicalism now!!
its an awful disorder which make many inflicted with it use pyschological projection such as believing all ridiculous and stupid traditional NT behavior/beliefs they do or say were carried out by people with intelectual disability,learning disability,downs,autism etc-example- "omg,that is so retarded","omg,they have to be retarded to do something like that","she definitely has downs syndrome","someone so learning disabled shoudnt be working at such a high up position" etc.

other common [though not catchall] symptoms are having no issue with the use of lying, impressing each other,judging what people and their lives are like without knowing them,overly concerned with looks/inteligence/fashion/matching up to society traditions/meeting a social quota and looking down on those who do not meet up to any of these.

Carter P Fly wrote: »

Indeed, Dentristry is still Rip it out, Plug it up or cover it over.

Its the fact that dentists get paid so much to do it the hammer and tongs (literally) way that they havent seen any reason to change it.

its nothing to do with payment,not with the genuine dentists anyway.
the brother in law works in dental conservation in a major dental hospital and said extraction is last resort,the reason they prefer to do conservation procedures like root canal,fillings etc as opposed to extraction is due to the trauma caused to the mouth [gums,nerves etc].

Reindeer · 31-05-2012 06:52PM

Begrudging and Schadenfreude come quickly to mind.

Statistician · 31-05-2012 10:06PM

UL_heart_throb wrote: »

<snip>

It's currently quite difficult to do spinal cord research on rats.

Look at this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18257077

Smallpox.

Teyla Emmagan · 31-05-2012 10:14PM

Carter P Fly wrote: »

With all the advances in scanning, Testing, lasers and robotics a prostate check is still a guy sticking a lubed finger up yer hole and wiggling it around.

Just be grateful you've never had a smear. Imagine someone jacking your anus apart and then sticking a ten inch bit of metal up there to have a good scrape around.

Bit of wiggling would come as a welcome relief

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Ciaran0 · 31-05-2012 10:15PM

Religion

aidan24326 · 31-05-2012 10:21PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

It's tied up with red tape and legislation. Alot of people like the Catholic Church are against stem cell research, having been compared to the likes of abortion and other daft notions.

Whicb is why the Church should be told to stick to what they know (which isn't much when it comes down to it).

But ultimately it comes down to the fact that cures aren't profibale in the long term, treatment is. When you consider the enormous amount of money and man-hours that have gone into cancer research, and still no cure and cancers like colon and pancreatic are still virtually untreatable. Something amiss there. No other human endeavour has seen so much funding and so much effort with so little reward.

Things they should have cured by now

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