Detection, Surgery and Drugs

 

There are three main ways of fighting disease; detection, surgery and drugs.

Are we in danger of spending so much on new and very expensive drugs, that the budgets for detection and surgery are being eroded? After all in some diseases like cancer, the drugs are secondary to very early detection and good surgery.

I myself am a coeliac, like 1 in 100 of the population. Very little is being done to detect this disease, despite the fact that if it is not detected it can lead to various cancers and other problems.

But the problem with coeliac disease is that it is cured not by drugs but by a gluten-free diet, so there’s nothing in it for the drug companies.