Forbes magazine recently reported on new research in cancer biology that would trigger the switch inside cancer cells that tells them to die. This revolutionary research could support and even replace radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, and make them seem as barbaric tomorrow as blood leeching does to us today. It's no coincidence that of the all the drugs developed globally between 1975 and 1994, France is at the bottom of the list with 3 percent of the total. By contrast, the United States, with its free market system, produced 45 percent of new drugs. If we want ensure that the potential medical miracles of this century are indeed discovered, the private research industry needs to be supported, not attacked, by government.
Medical miracles come through hard work, risk and protection of intellectual property.
Bush's policy initiatives look to the future with a vision of these extraordinary possibilities.