My unit is currently on orders for deployment. I’m not afraid to go, I knew there was a chance when I enlisted. I have Autosomol Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). I’m just wandering what kind of treatment will be available in Iraq? I was diagnosed with it in 2000. My mom and her siblings have it. My Aunt and Uncle are currently undergoing dyalisys for their ADKPD.

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since it affects so many americans, and any prophylactic treatment would likely be administered for the rest of a patient’s life, it would be extremely profitable for big pharm.
additionally, we also know the gene mutation that is responsible for PKD…

so what are the difficulties in trying to design a treatment strategy for PKD?

is the recent boom in genomics and recombinant DNA techniques likely to lead to a breakthrough?

what about increases in access to totipotent human cells for research or therapy? would this likely lead to advances in finding a treatment?

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