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2 Million Canadians would be at risk of death from heart attack
for lack of medication to control their high blood pressure.
| More than 8,000 newborns who develop jaundice this year would
develop cerebral palsy, now preventable through phototherapy.
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The U.S. and Canada would experience over 1.5 million cases of
rubella... over 400 times the current annual incidence of the disease.
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Many of the 262,000 individuals who benefited from coronary bypass
surgery in 1990 would never have seen 1991, let alone the turn of the millennium.
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Polio would kill or cripple thousands of unvaccinated children and
adults, year after year.
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Hundreds of thousands of insulin-dependent diabetics wouldn't be
insulin-dependent. They would be dead.
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The 100,000 arthritics who each year receive hip replacements would
be confined to wheelchairs.
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Without cataract surgery, more than one million people would lose their
vision in at least one eye.
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Death would be a certainty for the more than 10,000 patients in Canada
and the U.S. who receive kidney transplants each year.
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More than 40,000 people worldwide would have died, because the capability
to perform heart transplants would not have been developed.
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There would be no kidney dialysis to extend the lives of the more than
150,000 victims of end-stage renal disease.
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New surgical procedures to repair congenital heart defects would have to
be abandoned or tried for the first time on children.
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Development of techniques that may help restore function to paralyzed
victims of spinal cord injuries would not continue.
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The 50,000 Canadians with multiple sclerosis would lose the promise of
new treatments for the symptoms of this degenerative disease.
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Thousands of schizophrenics would be institutionalized and marginalized
with no hope for the future because of lack of understanding of the disease and its treatment.
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Methods to prevent many cancers would never be found, since theories about
genetic and environmental causative factors cannot be tested in humans.
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It would be too dangerous to test breakthrough products such as artificial
blood, which shows promise for saving the lives of critically injured accident victims.
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Researchers would be unable to clarify the cause of Alzheimer's disease.
Without that knowledge, the prognosis for millions of Alzheimer's victims would remain bleak.
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A cure for diabetes would be beyond reach.
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There would be no hope of finding a safe and effective vaccine against AIDS.
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