• Question: what kind of things do you want to do to help the economically developed country?

    Asked by nmahammed to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Vee Mitchell

      Vee Mitchell answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I’ve never really linked my job directly to the economic development of this country, the fact that good quality scientific research is still being done in the UK must have a financial impact as the goverment have just invested 44million into the research campus that I’m based on to expand the facilities for small biotech companies. If we can continue to conduct our research in the UK then we are supporting other scientific companies as well. Of course the cherry on the cake would be to find a drug which works in the clinic and can go to the end of the process and make it on the market. As that drug would be sold around the world it would bring a large amount of revenue into the UK.

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      Sallie Baxendale answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Good question! Some of my work has looked at how different diseases develop in different countries and even within rich and poor regions of our country. Did you know that poorer people in our country don’t live as long as richer people? There are lots of reasons for this including diet and poor housing conditions, but its also the case that they are less likely to go to the doctor when something is wrong. We are working hard to try and change this to make health outcomes more equal for everyone.

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      Bob Bonwick answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I work for the NHS and we activly try to reduce the amount we spend as a department. This can be tough as we don’t want to compromise patient care in the process.

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  • Photo: nmahammed

    nmahammed commented on :

    Thanks everyone for answering my question, especially sally i understand when you say that poore people have a shorter life span than richer people, am guesing the answer to that is that many poor people cant afford many things so therefore they get alot of deficiencies like kwashiokor and rickets this can lead to a life or death situation.