Mort Kondracke — American Journalist born on April 28, 1939,

Morton Matt Kondracke is an American political commentator and journalist. He gained great visibility via a long stint as a panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Kondracke worked for several leading publications, serving for twenty years as executive editor and columnist for the non-partisan Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He was also co-host of The Beltway Boys on Fox News Channel and was a regular nightly contributor on Special Report with Brit Hume and Special Report with Bret Baier... (wikipedia)

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.
Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.
At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.
Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.