Diseases in sentence

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They made a decision not to develop any medicines for rare and orphan diseases, and maybe you could use your expertise in satellite communications to develop this cure for pulmonary hypertension.

She says she wants to do all she can to help other people with orphan diseases get medicines, and today, she's our project leader for all telepresence activities, where she helps digitally unite the entire company to work together to find cures for pulmonary hypertension.

One of the tragic things about this outbreak is that measles, which can be fatal to a child with a weakened immune system, is one of the most easily preventable diseases in the world.

Most people didn't die of cancer or heart disease, the lifestyle diseases that afflict us in the West today.

They didn't die of those diseases because they didn't live long enough to develop them.

They even contract HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

And in fact, it's their differences that make them great drugs to treat different diseases.

What was I supposed to do? Ignore her? My wife and I managed to raise the funds to cover her treatment, but situations like Theresa were common every day, where people had the wrong diseases.

And by the "wrong diseases," I mean conditions for which funding hadn't been earmarked.

People wanted to fund specific projects or particular diseases or subsets of the population.

I will share an absolutely amazing development in aging research that could revolutionize the way we think about aging and how we may treat age-related diseases in the future.

And as we get older, diseases such as Alzheimer's and others may develop.

Blood is the tissue that not only carries cells that transport oxygen, for example, the red blood cells, or fights infectious diseases, but it also carries messenger molecules, hormone-like factors that transport information from one cell to another, from one tissue to another, including the brain.

So in our lab, we're trying to understand these factors better, and many other groups are trying to understand, what are the true aging factors, and can we learn something about them to possibly predict age-related diseases?

And if we can turn it back on a little bit, maybe we can find the factors that are mediating these effects, we can produce these factors synthetically and we can treat diseases of aging, such as Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.

Clearly, there is something deeply rooted about it, something which scares us and fascinates us more than other diseases.

So we rightfully fear Ebola, because it doesn't kill as many people as other diseases.

This goes to the fundamental problem we have with vaccine development for infectious diseases.

It goes something like this: The people most at risk for these diseases are also the ones least able to pay for vaccines.

Fortunately for diseases like Ebola, there are things we can do to remove some of these barriers.

We also need to do a better job at being able to figure out which are the diseases that most threaten us.

So these are the things that can be done, but to do this, if we want to deal with a complete market failure, we have to change the way we view and prevent infectious diseases.

And yet, we spend virtually nothing to prevent something as tangible and evolutionarily certain as epidemic infectious diseases.

Well, there's actually a pretty easy answer to that question, and it explains a lot: because healthcare was designed with diseases, not people, at its center.

We understand less about the science of Alzheimer's than other diseases because we've invested less time and money into researching it.

In the case of other diseases, patients and their families have led the charge for more research and put pressure on governments, the pharmaceutical industry, scientists and regulators.

And we've really spent the last 100 years trying to replicate that model over and over again in noninfectious diseases, in chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension and heart disease.

It's worked for diseases like leukemia.

In cases of diseases of the nervous system some of those organs had memory.

And that's mostly because of water shortage, crop diseases, climate change and a couple of other things.

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