Bobad - I applaud your life's work, but the fact remains more money goes to developing medicines to treat symptoms than goes to rooting out causes.
Cures don't make the pharmaceutical companies or the medical industry as much money as keeping people unwell enough to need continued treatment.

@ Ranger1 I've long suspected that the methotrexate (known to be highly toxic) being used to treat my RA is slowly killing me. I get fussed at by my consultant when I go off the treatment due to feeling poisoned, my blood pressure going up and return of angina pain. She just states that these are not recorded side effects of methotrexate. I tell her to check my record and see how the BP returns to normal when I am not taking it. But then she ignored an alert on my record that indicated my liver enzymes were high, which should have prompted her to call me and tell me to stop taking the metho. It was a registrar at the hospital who noticed and who was surprised I wasn't notified. What the heck was that about?