We Need More Research Into Potassium Channel Modulators

I don't know if Tinnitus can be cured or not, but I don't think that money is always the barrier - We're sometimes forgetting the difficulties researchers are facing trying to deal with a condition.

 

Agreed, very well said. Thanks for the clarification.

Rich

 

Well, guys, here is a recent pubmed on Potassium channel targeting for cancer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25049269

I guess they have much more funds in the cancer. With all due respects to the members here, if this happens to help treat/cure cancer first, it will be a revolution, and if they find something for tinnitus on the road, it'll be all bonus

 

Exactly. And as 10% of people (approximately and most likely more in the Western world due to noisy leisure time activities) suffer from it I don't see how it would not bring in money. A lot of people suffer from cancer as well and pay good money to get treated, yet many of them do not survive. With tinnitus the patients don't die and most likely a lot of us will be on the pill for life so I don't think money is an object. Neurology and psychiatry are simply not very developed areas but that doesn't mean the breakthrough won't come.

 

Bumping this thread.

We can STILL do something about this. Trobalt has showed some progress and the team behind it is currently working on new two drugs will work on potassium channels.

But I do wonder is there any labs at the moment working on some drugs will work potassium channels?