How close are we to any major medical advances? (cure for cancer, hiv, etc)?

Question

I mean the 00s are almost over, in the 90s we've made major leaps, what about this decade? It seems like we've been stalling forever and ever and ever and ever.

Are we pretty much never going to advance beyond where we are now, and big pharma is too heavy into money to really ever make anything significant?

What about conditions such as asthma, diabetes, hair loss even, so much out there. Aging, etc, yadda yadda yadda.

We seem to have made so few discoveries/leaps into this yet,

we have so many shallow things such as 100000 versions of clothes, plastic surgery, hair dyes, new movies, music, we can fly to space, yet,....

we still can't cure a little tiny microscopic VIRUS, or a cancer cell?

How are we able to put a man on the moon, decades ago, but are unable to cure viruses and bacteria and abnormal cells?

How close are we realistically towards anything?

People keep saying that the medical industry made huge advances and that things are getting better,

but whenever I visit my local ER, or specialist or primary care physician,....they don't seem to be very knowledgeable at all, care more about their big SUV and shallow small talk, and generally just don't seem to know much about anything really, it's scary.

Answer 1

I doubt we can ever cure everything. What we may be able to do is extend the life of those who are afflicted and give them a dignified and prolonged end.

Even when we do "cure" one thing, it will not be worldwide; and then, yet another disease will be discovered. Mad cow disease and aids were non-existent not too many years ago.