Sleuthing for a Syndrome X gene is in its very early stages, with no successes yet.
Every girl was just one twist of the genetic helix away from having a syndrome of some sort.
Researchers believe it could help maintain muscle metabolism and prevent wastage and kick-start movement in patients struck by a syndrome.
Naming it a syndrome would encourage health professionals to develop better treatment strategies and require health insurers to pay for treatment, she believes.
But before we get to the expert, let's hear from an actual politician, perhaps one too green to even know that there is a syndrome.
Failure to develop this trick is an early symptom of autism, a syndrome whose main underlying feature is an inability to understand that other people have minds, too.
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He and his wife of 22 years, Claudia, have no children, and the cause became important to them after their niece was born with trisomy 13, a syndrome caused by an extra 13th chromosome.
Kathryn Anderson, a researcher in families and chronic illness at Florida International University, argues that caregiver stress should be named a syndrome because it would help caregivers seek the help and resources they need.
The defence say Miss Pearson and her mother suffered from a syndrome called folie a deux which meant the older woman was the dominant figure in the relationship and Miss Pearson therefore had a reduced capacity to appreciate the risk to her mother's health or the conditions they lived in.
"There's a rubbernecking syndrome, " said Paul Boxer, assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers University.
Ideological labels are mutable, but at any given time they publicly connote a certain syndrome of convictions.
They also suffered from folie a deux syndrome - translated from French as madness created between two people.
Unfortunately, the high-water mark provision has created a flight syndrome among hedge operators.
For decades, highly subsidized credit and grants have not helped African businesses grow but has often created a dependency syndrome.
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The family of a six-year-old girl with a rare syndrome which means she cannot smile said they are desperate for more research into the condition.
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Medullary thyroid cancer involves specific types of cells that are found in the thyroid gland and can occur spontaneously, or be part of a genetic syndrome.
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Three Google executives are facing six-month suspended jail sentences in Italy, where a court has convicted them of violating privacy of a child with Down Syndrome after a classmate posted a video of him being bullied to its now-defunct Google Videos site.
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While some experts insist Syndrome X is a disease and that a genetic flaw is the cause, others argue Syndrome X is merely a precursor to other ailments, including heart disease and adult-onset diabetes.
The market is even larger given the new appreciation for a condition called the metabolic syndrome, a hodgepodge of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease that is estimated to afflict some 50 million Americans.
Peter Elliott, of the Down's Syndrome Research Foundation, said the idea that there was a Critical Down Syndrome Region was too simplistic.
The study raised patients' hopes that if a virus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome, a treatment might be found.
The panel cited a suspected case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a potentially fatal skin rash, in a child taking part in a Sparlon study.
He died in January at 57 from leukemia, the end result of a two-year struggle against myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of cancer that affects the bone marrow.
Chakalis later developed a constellation of ailments including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a life-threatening skin condition that can be caused by a variety of drugs including Provigil.
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The researchers reported they found the retrovirus XMRV in a majority of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating condition that involves cognitive dysfunction and severe pain.
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Fever reducers such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin) can help, but remember to avoid aspirin, which can cause a serious illness called Reye Syndrome in children with a viral illness.
The panel had not been asked to consider a second safety issue, called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare and potentially deadly skin reaction for which Bextra already has a boxed warning.
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