While it is not clear what motivated the lone gunman or from what disease he suffered, if any, few think he could have been right in his head.
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He reveals what disease killed Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the Labour Party before Harold Wilson, and which tie Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative minister who did most to knock Margaret Thatcher off her perch, was wearing when he resigned.
Any information that sheds light on what causes the disease and what stops it in its tracks has got to be great news.
Until very recently little was known about what caused the disease, and treatments were few and far between.
We need to ask what "cultural disease" has allowed us to tolerate this preventable risk to our children for so long without action.
And while scientists still don't know what causes the disease, they believe common irritants found in homes across the country can trigger an attack.
So, what sets the disease apart in normal weight people?
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What if the disease was associated with mild symptoms?
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We have worked very hard to take what was an incurable disease and make it curable for 90 percent of the cases.
If BPA was a pill that targeted a disease, what would the pharmacokinetic studies tell a drug discovery team about its potential effectiveness?
"It could well be that what works for one disease will turn out to work for another, even though that wasn't the original intent, " he said.
The point is that if excessive debt is the disease, what we've had since the end of 2008 is analgesic and sticking plaster, rather than cure.
"Many countries are seeing the rising tide of an epidemic and all doctors need to know how to recognise and diagnose this disease and what treatments are available, " he said.
AZT, began as an orphan drug for what was then an obscure disease of the immune system.
Now, he says, the transposon may make it possible to more easily figure out what genes are involved in disease.
The death rate from heart disease was triple what it is today.
The question then is: when a test indicates that a patient has disease X, what are the odds that the test is correct?
Big drug firms like Wyeth, Elan and Eli Lilly have spent years pursuing drugs based on the theory of what causes Alzheimer's disease.
There are several competing theories about what causes Alzheimer's disease.
What we want with this disease is a very rapid form of notification with the bureaucracy of the statutory notification system, and that's how we've detected our cases so far.
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And it calls that figure "unacceptable for what is an almost totally preventable disease".
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"The worst part of the disease is not knowing what each day will bring, " she said.
But during high school I began to face the realities of what it meant to have this disease.
Whether it can be right to cure someone of what is not yet considered a disease remains unaddressed.
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In the 1890s, this German gymnast and patriotic teacher raged against the "foot-louts" in Germany suffering from what was called "the English disease".
Even if it works, it's not clear that parents will want their children to take a drug for what is essentially a sexually transmitted disease.
The researchers estimated heritability - what proportion of risk for a disease across a population is genetic - for Alzheimer's to be between 58% and 79%.
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In the US alone 5.4 million people are estimated to be suffering with what is an incurable and progressive disease causing enormous distress and heartache for both the sufferers and their families.
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