The possibility of using vaccines as therapeutic drugs, prompting the immune system to cure as well as prevent disease, offers still more promise.

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Not even the two-party opposition Alliance, critical as it is of unemployment, still around 13%, dares to suggest printing money (the currency-board system forbids it) as a cure.

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But if a cure means getting rid of progerin and really affecting the cardiovascular system in a big way so that these children live longer lives, then trials gives us a lot of hope.

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Or, if spoken of in generalities like "The financial system needs innovation, " it voices little more than hopes of a magical cure to our woes.

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