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Nanomedicine. 13/25. Health in the Millennium Goals



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Subject:
Medical applications of nano-scale technologies have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by delivering powerful tools to diagnose and treat disease at the molecular level. However, the current zeal for nano-level enhanced treatments may divert scarce funds for research and development of medicine and essential health services, lowering direct resources for non-medical aspects of health and community welfare. While proclaiming that Nanomedicine is a solution to pressing health needs in the global South, in reality arises from the North and is designed primarily for wealthy markets. The ultimate goal of the pharmaceutical industry using nano-scale technologies is to make all people to become patients and that all patients is a paying customer to "medicate" their social conditions with drugs and devices that enhance human performance (also nicknamed HyPE). These drugs and devices, nano-enabled, could lead to an era with two levels of humans-Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens 2.0.
Market:
Since mid-2006, were in preclinical development, clinical or commercial 130 drug and delivery systems and 125 devices or diagnostic reagents, all based nanotechnology. The combined market for nano-enabled medicine (supply of drugs, therapy and diagnostics) will jump from just over a billion dollars in 2005 to almost 10 billion in 2010. The National Science Foundation U.S. (NSF, for its acronym in English) predicts that by 2015 nanotechnology will be responsible for half of the line products in the pharmaceutical industry. Nanomedicine will help large pharmaceutical companies to extend the duration of exclusive monopoly patents covering existing compounds and other drugs, older, less complex. Analysts suggest that nanotech-enabled medicine will increase the profit margin and discourage competition.
Impact: Nanomedicine may have its greatest impact in the field of "human performance enhancement." Combined with other new technologies, Nanomedicine, in theory, make possible to alter the structure, function and capabilities of bodies and human brains. In the near future, technologies for improving human performance, nano-enabled, erased the distinctions between "therapy" and "refinement, enhancement, improvement" and could change, quite literally, the definition of what it means to be healthy or to be human .
The comparison of reality The irony is that some crucial questions remain open about the environmental and health impacts of nanomaterials that are used to develop nanomedicines. The emerging field of "nanotoxicology" is tinged with uncertainty. Although some products are commercially available nano-scale (including nanomedicines), no government in the world has developed regulations that meet the basic aspects of nanoscale security.
Policy: You really can donors of the Organization for Development Cooperation (OECD)-which could not provide the needed bed nets to malaria-ravaged countries, or delivered one condom per adult per year to fight HIV / AIDS in the global South, "argue that large investments in new nano remedies will pay off in poor countries? A world governments are urged a comprehensive assessment of the risks participatory social and scientific, ethical, cultural, socioeconomic and environmental aspects of Nanomedicine. Maintaining the pace of technological change requires a framework intergovernmental inspect and evaluate the introduction of new technologies. At its next meeting in 2007, the Assembly World Health should undertake a thorough analysis of nanomedicine that includes a context of broader social health.

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