Disease
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So over the long course of human history, the infectious
disease
that's killed more humans than any other is malaria.
So malaria should be a relatively simple
disease
to solve, and yet to this day, hundreds of thousands of people are going to die from the bite of a mosquito.
What it means is, if you have malaria in your society, your economic growth is depressed by 1.3 percent every year, year after year after year, just this one
disease
alone.
And they don't say, "It's a killer
disease.
This is a huge cultural challenge in taming this
disease.
We've got a
disease.
Most malarious societies throughout history have simply lived with the
disease.
Now that's no big deal if you're fighting a killer
disease.
That's not to say that malaria is unconquerable, because I think it is, but what if we attacked this
disease
according to the priorities of the people who lived with it?
On top of this, when you get so many animals so close together, it creates a breeding ground for
disease
and opportunities for harm and abuse.
And so we see that violence is, in a way, behaving like a contagious
disease.
And the second thing to do, of course, is to prevent further spread, that means to find who else has been exposed, but may not be spreading so much right now like someone with a smaller case of T.B., or someone who is just hanging out in the neighborhoods, but in the same group, and then they need to be, in a way, managed as well, particular to the specific
disease
process.
So violence is responding as a
disease
even as it behaves as a
disease.
Whatever life throws at us, whether it's cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or even broken bones, we want to try and get better.
And actually, the structure of those tissues is quite different, and it's going to really depend on whether your patient has any underlying disease, other conditions, in terms of how you're going to regenerate your tissue, and you're going to need to think about the materials you're going to use really carefully, their biochemistry, their mechanics, and many other properties as well.
Now finally, I just want to talk a little bit about applying this sort of thing to cardiovascular disease, because this is a really big clinical problem.
We have a noble path to curing the disease, patients and doctors alike, but there doesn't seem to be a noble path to dying.
We're bringing together leading physicians and patients to discuss,
disease
by disease, what is really quality, what should we measure, and to make those standards global.
In three years' time, we plan to have covered 40 percent of the
disease
burden.
They almost never die of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and the other noncommunicable diseases that will be the causes of death of almost all of us in this room today.
Sometimes disease, stress, and even diet can disrupt that regulatory function, however, altering the quantity of hormones that glands secrete or changing the way that cells respond.
This is a
disease
that affects a large number of individuals.
It had to do with death and
disease
and lots of other things.
So 100 years ago, hormones had just been discovered, and people hoped that hormone treatments were going to cure aging and disease, and now instead we set our hopes on stem cells, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
And I said, 'She had the same
disease
I have.'
And as we look ahead I'd like to share with you a thought: It's the thought of a future where the 17 million deaths per year that we currently have due to infectious
disease
is a historical footnote.
Women are now routinely included in clinical studies, and we've learned that there are major differences in the ways that women and men experience
disease.
Let's start with heart
disease.
This is the face of heart
disease.
And what we found was that Linda's
disease
didn't look like the typical male
disease.
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