What disease does Tyler say Jason has and what are the implications?

Tyler diagnoses Jason with a case of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). He says that the disease is generally treatable with a cocktail of drugs, but in some cases, there are complications and no remedy. Here, the reader must wonder if somehow some Martian technology may appear in the near future to help people like Jason since Mars is evolving at a phenomenal pace by Earth's perspective in time.