Source: Popular Science
In the not-so-distant future, these six drugs -- already in the works -- will change how we live, and even how we die.
Cancer Vaccine
Rather than designing a drug to cure cancer, current research focuses on developing drugs to help the body fight cancer itself. Cancer vaccines would boost the body’s own natural immune response so that naturally produced antibodies would attack the cancer cells and cure the disease. Currently, researchers have only tested the vaccine with melanoma [left], and the treatment still requires that the cancer fighting immune cells are altered in the lab and then returned to the body. However, once researchers figure out how to change the immune cells in vivo, it would only take a pill or a shot to get the body killing cancer for itself.
Male Birth Control Pill
With Viagra topping the charts as the highest selling drug of all time, it’s obvious that in the pharmaceutical world, as in the rest of the world, sex sells. With that established, a male birth control pill could be the brass ring of the pharmaceutical world. Yet, despite recent advances in both hormone related pills that affect sperm production and medication that prevents ejaculation, the pill remains elusive. Furthermore, the endeavor has been plagued both by technical problems, like a high non-response rate, and social problems: some believe men will just tell women they are on the pill without actually taking it.
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