Disease
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The decades ahead will see dramatic advances in
disease
prevention, general health, the quality of life.
Schizophrenia is a brain
disease.
My dad has Alzheimer's
disease.
I'm looking for a third way: I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
disease.
So I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
disease.
They say that people who are engaged in activities are happier, easier for their caregivers to look after, and it may even slow the progress of the
disease.
I don't want to get Alzheimer's
disease.
And soon, I started hearing from people all over the world who were adopting their own secret identity, recruiting their own allies, and they were getting "super better," facing challenges like cancer and chronic pain, depression and Crohn's
disease.
You see, diabetes is an autoimmune
disease
where your body fights itself, and at the time people thought that somehow maybe exposure to a pathogen had triggered my immune system to fight the pathogen and then kill the cells that make insulin.
So you have caught flesh-eating
disease
if you caught that one.
They take the donor ileum, which is filled with microbes from a donor and they have a recipient who might have a problem with their microbial community, say Crohn's disease, and they sterilized the donor ileum.
And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's
disease
and 100 people who don't have Crohn's
disease.
Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like this: developing countries promised to at least halve extreme poverty, hunger and deaths from disease, alongside some other targets, by 2015, and developed nations promised to help them get that done by dropping debts, increasing smart aid, and trade reform.
The picture I showed you before, and this picture, of drought, death and
disease
is what we usually see.
You have to focus on how to create jobs, make sure they don't fall into disease, and that they get an education.
Saving the lives of billions, eradicating disease, feeding the hungry, teaching kids to read?
He explained to me that his parents told him that refugees are people from Africa who come to the US to escape death, starvation and
disease.
And she was unusual because she was really interested in a new science, the emerging field of epidemiology, the study of patterns in
disease.
Most
disease
is correlated with poverty, but in the case of childhood cancers, the children who were dying seemed mostly to come from affluent families.
Now, sadly, neurological disorders such as Parkinson's
disease
gradually destroy this extraordinary ability, as it is doing to my friend Jan Stripling, who was a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time.
However, there are 6.3 million people worldwide who have the disease, and they have to live with incurable weakness, tremor, rigidity and the other symptoms that go along with the disease, so what we need are objective tools to detect the
disease
before it's too late.
But frustratingly, with Parkinson's
disease
and other movement disorders, there are no biomarkers, so there's no simple blood test that you can do, and the best that we have is like this 20-minute neurologist test.
So these vocal effects can actually be quite subtle, in some cases, but with any digital microphone, and using precision voice analysis software in combination with the latest in machine learning, which is very advanced by now, we can now quantify exactly where somebody lies on a continuum between health and
disease
using voice signals alone.
We have the opportunity to start to search for the early biomarkers of the
disease
before it's too late.
So what will happen is that, during the call you have to indicate whether or not you have the
disease
or not, you see.
But we'll get a very large sample of data that is collected from all different circumstances, and it's getting it in different circumstances that matter because then we are looking at ironing out the confounding factors, and looking for the actual markers of the
disease.
So what that means is that people will be able to — ML: (Laughs) TR: People will be able to call in from their mobile phones and do this test, and people with Parkinson's could call in, record their voice, and then their doctor can check up on their progress, see where they're doing in this course of the
disease.
This is a world-changing problem with huge implications for our ability to understand and treat
disease.
When you put all the mental illnesses together, they account for roughly 15 percent of the total global burden of
disease.
Indeed, mental illnesses are also very damaging to people's lives, but beyond just the burden of disease, let us consider the absolute numbers.
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