Mexican President Felipe Calderon took to television late Wednesday night, saying the country has enough medicine to cure the sick.
Western medicine has no cure for dengue, relying instead on pain relievers and fever reducers.
Moreover, once inflation expectations become entrenched, inflation is hard to cure except by strong monetary medicine.
There was a time not long ago when patients suffering from rare diseases had little hope of finding a medicine that could cure their ills.
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No magic medicine or easy cure is apparent, but perhaps the most effective message that government can send is to hold individuals accountable for their own personal lifestyle decisions.
"Suppose the best medicine available in the U.S. could cure a man in three days, while some other mainland-produced medicine would take four days, " he says.
For one, an investment in housing, quite unlike capital committed to technology or medicine, will not cure cancer or make us more efficient.
Unrealistic expectations of modern medicine to achieve a cure, especially in some patients with cancer, post-cardiac arrest, end-stage cardiac or pulmonary disease and major stroke.
Although this medicine may have helped cure the problem, it was the emergency rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve in the fall of 1998 that pumped enormous liquidity into the global system and dramatically reduced financial stress in Asia.
The editor of the Lancet, visiting her Home for the Dying in 1994, reported that stocks of medicine were insufficient, and that not enough was done to cure the sick or ease the pain of the dying.
At that point, this branch of medicine will be able to make the most important leap of all from cure to prevention.
ECONOMIST: The American Association for the Advancement of Science
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