Diseases in sentence

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I think this aspect of training in cardiology that the Heart Institute of the Caribbean has introduced in Jamaica is very important in terms of diagnosing cardiac diseases.

And that's mainly for those patients who suffer from chronic diseases.

As a physician, I wonder whether we could use it to reduce the number of lives lost due to one of the fastest-growing diseases on Earth: cancer.

And with that growth comes a whole list of growing challenges, challenges such as dealing with global warming, solving starvation and water shortages and curing diseases, to name just a few.

And he was hired to interview people that had sexually transmitted diseases.

And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write, can tell us ahead of time whether something may go wrong with our minds.

And somewhere there's a doctor with a wack haircut in a black lab coat trying to find a cure for the diseases that are gonna make us all extinct for real one day.

So I've been asking myself: Why should we limit this smarter, more precise, better way to tackle diseases to the rich world?

That's why 10 years later, it continues to shock me, knowing that 96 percent of genome studies associating common genetic variation with specific diseases have focused exclusively on individuals of European ancestry.

They diagnose certain diseases.

Maybe we could try to pinpoint the exact changes in the brain that result in diseases, diseases like Alzheimer's and epilepsy and Parkinson's, for which there are few treatments, much less cures, and for which, very often, we don't know the cause or the origins and what's really causing them to occur.

So what we're trying to do now is to figure out if we can actually use this technology to map the building blocks of life in a wide variety of diseases.

We can map the patterns that occur in living systems, and figure out how to overcome the diseases that plague us.

So, I'm going to begin by applying this idea to diarrheal diseases.

And you can show, just by looking at data from literature, that vector-borne diseases are more harmful than non-vector-borne diseases.

But as I said earlier, this kind of logic applies across the board for infectious diseases, and it ought to.

Because when we're dealing with infectious diseases, we're dealing with living systems.

We want to cure diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer.

But what is happening is that CRISPR is being used by thousands and thousands of scientists to do really, really important work, like making better models of diseases in animals, for example, or for taking pathways that produce valuable chemicals and getting them into industrial production in fermentation vats, or even doing really basic research on what genes do.

All around the world, ME is one of the least funded diseases.

Here's why this worries me: since the 1950s, rates of many autoimmune diseases have doubled to tripled.

Seventy-five percent of autoimmune disease patients are women, and in some diseases, it's as high as 90 percent.

Even though these diseases disproportionately affect women, they are not women's diseases.

So many diseases were once thought of as psychological until science uncovered their biological mechanisms.

ME has never benefited from the kind of science that other diseases have had, but that's starting to change.

Maybe a few lung diseases here and there, but, you know, that's not such a big deal.

And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases, or we can change the environment, and change the expression of those genes in the epigenome and pass that on to the next generations.

It allowed sewage pipes to be placed, dramatic decrease in diarrheal diseases, at the cost of some outdoor air pollution.

I have conversations with these patients with rare and deadly diseases.

So we don't know what causes depression, but we do know that stress is the initial trigger in 80 percent of cases, and depression and PTSD are different diseases, but this is something they share in common.

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