Over to you big Pharma

The medical establishment is having more and more trouble hiding the fact that, with the sole exception of emergency medicine, forty years of "advances" have had little impact on human health and mortality.
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Consider the overall effect of the successes.
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Organ transplants were a real breakthrough, but their effect is limited to a few thousand patients annually.
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Most of the new pharmaceuticals merely control symptoms
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Often with severe side-effects. 
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Hormone replacement therapy is turning out to be a disaster.
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The same for cholesterol-lowering medication, anti-depressants, and many of the painkillers.
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When a new medicine is unveiled, a "twenty percent improvement in outcomes among a significant group of patients" is considered a great success.
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Despite decades of huge investment, it appears that the age of dramatic cures is over.
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There has been no "cure" for any of the poster child diseases such as muscular dystrophy and breast cancer.
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Certainly no major disease has been wiped out since we conquered the great killers of the nineteenth century.
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Coronary artery disease has retreated little, if at all, in thirty years.
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Cancer is doing just fine, thank you.
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Arthritis is just as devastating as ever
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Strokes nearly as common
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Alzheimer's disease on the rise.
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Meanwhile a host of formerly uncommon conditions, for which conventional medicine can offer palliative remedies at best, have grown into epidemics
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Diabetes
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Autism
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Allergies
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Multiple sclerosis
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Lupus
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Obesity
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Chronic fatigue
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Fibromyalgia
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Multiple chemical sensitivities
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Inflammatory bowel syndrome
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Chronic fungal infections, and many others.
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Not only have formerly rare diseases become epidemic, but entirely new diseases such as AIDS have appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
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Finally, to add insult to injury, some of the "conquered" diseases of the past such as tuberculosis seem to be making a comeback, usually due to antibiotic resistance.
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This state of affairs constitutes a great unspoken crisis in medicine.
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Despite unprecedented billions of dollars in pharmaceutical research, medicine seems to be losing ground in the "battle against disease." .
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Typically, the response is more technology
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More precise control at the genetic and molecular level.
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A continued search for the "cure".

Charles Eisenstein - The ascent of Humanity