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.
The U.S. and Canada would experience over 1.5 million cases of rubella... over 400 times the current annual incidence of the disease.	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.
Polio would kill or cripple thousands of unvaccinated children and adults, year after year.	Hundreds of thousands of insulin-dependent diabetics wouldn't be insulin-dependent. They would be dead.
The 100,000 arthritics who each year receive hip replacements would be confined to wheelchairs.	Without cataract surgery, more than one million people would lose their vision in at least one eye.
Death would be a certainty for the more than 10,000 patients in Canada and the U.S. who receive kidney transplants each year.	More than 40,000 people worldwide would have died, because the capability to perform heart transplants would not have been developed.
There would be no kidney dialysis to extend the lives of the more than 150,000 victims of end-stage renal disease.	New surgical procedures to repair congenital heart defects would have to be abandoned or tried for the first time on children.
Development of techniques that may help restore function to paralyzed victims of spinal cord injuries would not continue.	The 50,000 Canadians with multiple sclerosis would lose the promise of new treatments for the symptoms of this degenerative disease.
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.	Methods to prevent many cancers would never be found, since theories about genetic and environmental causative factors cannot be tested in humans.
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.	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.
A cure for diabetes would be beyond reach.	There would be no hope of finding a safe and effective vaccine against AIDS.