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* '''Played For Laughs''': There's one disease that humanity still haven't managed to cure: the common cold. The virologists of the world (or what's left of them) just can't keep it down.



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** This state of healthcare arrives only TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

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** Note only do diseases never happen, but people never get hurt (or even a paperclips) and the body repairs itself, so people are also nearly impossible to kill by getting injured. In addition, people can live as long as they want without having to worry about old age, with the only limitation being the heat death of the universe.
** This state of healthcare arrives only TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Or, heck, even a few years in the future.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Not only are diseases ''curable'', they never happen in the first place!

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Not only are diseases ''curable'', they never happen in the first place!place!
** This state of healthcare arrives only TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

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* '''Downplayed''': Only the wealthy can access these new cures and innovations.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Only the wealthy can access these new cures and innovations. innovations.
** Health has improved, but it is not perfect.

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* '''Enforced''': SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale

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* '''Enforced''': SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale '''Enforced''':
** SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale
** The author lost a loved one to disease, and is dreaming of a better future.



* '''Implied''': The state of health is not commented on, but there are many extremely old people, and they are strangely spry. Additionally, no one seems to upset at being coughed or sneezed on.
* '''Deconstructed''': The cure for all diseases is made from [[PoweredByAForsakenChild dead people]].
* '''Reconstructed''': People voluntarily donate their bodies to make the cure after their death. This is considered a great honor and sacrifice.



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* Health aspects are better in some ways and worse in others. Genetic engineering has wiped out all genetic diseases but antibiotic resistant bacteria has become universal. However egregiously deadly disease have vaccines. Meanwhile aging occurs as today.

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* ** Health aspects are better in some ways and worse in others. Genetic engineering has wiped out all genetic diseases but antibiotic resistant bacteria has become universal. However egregiously deadly disease have vaccines. Meanwhile aging occurs as today.

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* '''Basic Trope''': In the future, sickness will be curable or nonexistent.

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* '''Basic Trope''': In the future, sickness will be curable or nonexistent.



* '''Justified''': As ScienceMarchesOn, new cures, less-invasive surgical techniques, etc. are discovered all the time.

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As ScienceMarchesOn, new cures, less-invasive surgical techniques, etc. are discovered all the time.



* '''Inverted''': In the year 3000, all bacteria are resistant to all known antibiotics, so safe chemo and safe surgery are nearly impossible, women [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth]] regularly, children regularly die before the age of five from diarrhea, and [[WorldOfNoGrandparents most people don't even live to see 50]].

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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In the year 3000, all bacteria are resistant to all known antibiotics, so safe chemo and safe surgery are nearly impossible, women [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth]] regularly, children regularly die before the age of five from diarrhea, and [[WorldOfNoGrandparents most people don't even live to see 50]].



* '''Subverted''': Only the wealthy have access to newer forms of medicine, nutrition, etc.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Only the wealthy have access to newer forms of medicine, nutrition, etc.



* '''Double Subverted''': More and more people can afford at least ''some'' of them.

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More and more people can afford at least ''some'' of them.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Health aspects are better in some ways and worse in others. Genetic engineering has wiped out all genetic diseases but antibiotic resistant bacteria has become universal. However egregiously deadly disease have vaccines. Meanwhile aging occurs as today.

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Health aspects are better in some ways and worse in others. Genetic engineering has wiped out all genetic diseases but antibiotic resistant bacteria has become universal. However egregiously deadly disease have vaccines. Meanwhile aging occurs as today.



* '''Averted''': No diseases ''ever'' existed InUniverse

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No diseases ''ever'' existed InUniverseInUniverse.



* '''Invoked''': Advances in science and medicine

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* '''Invoked''': Advances in science and medicinemedicine.



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** [[GreenAesop Climate change]] has been halted and reversed.



** Climate change has rendered Earth all but uninhabitable.



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The secret to perfect health isn't nanomachines capable of fixing every disease and destroying every pathogen. It turns out that if you make food unhealthy enough it eventually wraps around to be so healthy it can revive the long dead.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Health aspects are better in some ways and worse in others. Genetic engineering has wiped out all genetic diseases but antibiotic resistant bacteria has become universal. However egregiously deadly disease have vaccines. Meanwhile aging occurs as today.
** All known infectious diseases have been eradicated. However unknown ones they are completely vulnerable towards.



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* '''Defied''': ???A god of disease ensures that there will always be disease and illness, even in the face of transhumanism.
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* '''Straight''': In the year 3000, all diseases are easily, 100% curable. People regularly live to be well over 100 years old, [[STDImmunity STIs are a thing of the past]], and heart attacks (if they happen at all) are survivable.

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* '''Straight''': In the year 3000, all diseases are easily, 100% curable. People regularly live to be well over 100 years old, [[STDImmunity STIs are a thing of the past]], and heart attacks (if they happen at all) are survivable.not only survivable, they leave no lasting damage.
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* '''Inverted''': In the year 3000, all bacteria are resistant to all known antibiotics, so safe chemo and safe surgery are nearly impossible, women [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth]] regularly, children regularly die before the age of five from diarrhea, and most people don't even live to see 50.

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* '''Inverted''': In the year 3000, all bacteria are resistant to all known antibiotics, so safe chemo and safe surgery are nearly impossible, women [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth]] regularly, children regularly die before the age of five from diarrhea, and [[WorldOfNoGrandparents most people don't even live to see 50.50]].

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** Improvements in agriculture and food distribution policies (or perhaps {{Food Pill}}s) increase people's access to food and nutrition.

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** Improvements in agriculture and food distribution policies (or perhaps {{Food Pill}}s) FoodPills increase people's access to food and nutrition.



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* '''Subverted''': Only the wealthy have access to newer forms of medicine, nutrition, etc.
** Although DesignerBabies can be grown or conceived in a lab, they can still come down with diseases later on.
** Many bacterial and viral infections have become resistant to known antibiotics and antivirals.
** Climate change has rendered Earth all but uninhabitable.
*'''Double Subverted''': More and more people can afford at least ''some'' of them.
** They're less likely to, because of hardier genetics.
** New ones are being discovered all the time.
** Survivors on a GenerationShip headed towards a new planet have health care beyond even the wildest dreams of SpeculativeFiction writers.
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Parodied: *'''Averted''': No diseases ''ever'' existed InUniverse
** Health and medicine in the year 3000 are more-or-less the same as now.
*'''Enforced''': SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale
*'''Lampshaded''': "No one ever dies from sickness anymore."
*'''Invoked''': Advances in science and medicine
*'''Exploited''': {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s conspire to make these new medical techniques, infrastructure, etc. available only to the wealthy, [[KillThePoor at the expense of everyone else]].
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*'''Basic Trope''': In the future, sickness will be curable or nonexistent.
*'''Straight''': In the year 3000, all diseases are easily, 100% curable. People regularly live to be well over 100 years old, [[STDImmunity STIs are a thing of the past]], and heart attacks (if they happen at all) are survivable.
*'''Exaggerated''': Not only are diseases ''curable'', they never happen in the first place!
*'''Downplayed''': Only the wealthy can access these new cures and innovations.
*'''Justified''': As ScienceMarchesOn, new cures, less-invasive surgical techniques, etc. are discovered all the time.
** DesignerBabies are grown in {{Uterine Replicator}}s, and are free from any and all genetic diseases.
** People exercise more, or at least there's a miracle pill that gives everyone the effects of exercise and sleep.
** [[FantasyContraception New types of contraception]] are available, accessible, and accepted, which improves the health of women by allowing them to space out their pregnancies (or forgo pregnancy altogether), and improves the health of children by allowing parents to dedicate more resources to fewer children.
** Improvements in hygiene and sanitation-related infrastructure ''drastically'' reduce infection by water-borne pathogens.
** Improvements in agriculture and food distribution policies (or perhaps {{Food Pill}}s) increase people's access to food and nutrition.
** Vaccines have eradicated nearly all bacterial and viral diseases
** A FountainOfYouth (literal or figurative) has been discovered, enabling people to stay "in their prime" a lot longer.
** [[GreenAesop Climate change]] has been halted and reversed.
*'''Inverted''': In the year 3000, all bacteria are resistant to all known antibiotics, so safe chemo and safe surgery are nearly impossible, women [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth]] regularly, children regularly die before the age of five from diarrhea, and most people don't even live to see 50.
** BigFatFuture
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