Bernard Meunier is the former president of the CNRS and a former visiting professor at Guangdong University of Technology in Canton (China). Yves Agid is a university professor, emeritus hospital practitioner. He is a founding member of the Brain and Spine Institute.
Over the past few decades, medicine has made spectacular progress.
We can cure most infectious diseases, more than 50% of cancers, and advances in surgery save thousands of people every day.
We prevent more and more affections thanks to hygiene, vaccinations, various preventive treatments.
For example, the treatment of arterial hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia makes it possible to reduce the frequency of vascular accidents, in particular cerebral.
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Unfortunately, at the same time, it is a therapeutic failure for all neurodegenerative diseases.
So many orphan diseases, not because they would be...
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