Unfortunately the cure--a severe contraction of its operations--looks as bad as the disease.
The fall in the harvest is being attributed to bad weather and disease.
In normal good health, some bad bacteria that cause disease are crowded out by good bacteria.
More study needs to be done on more common kinds of pain, such as headaches, bad backs and pain from disease.
People with high levels of good cholesterol appear to be somewhat protected against heart disease, even if their bad cholesterol levels are high.
The 700 patients in the ENHANCE trial, who all had a genetic disease causing their levels of bad cholesterol to spike without treatment, were all on the top dose of the cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor.
The disease causing economic stagnation is bad money.
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The recent news on food-borne disease has been both good and bad.
Many low-carb or no-sugar products still contain large amounts of saturated fat, which can raise bad cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease.
"Many people with bad teeth also may have risk factors for heart disease, " Quyyumi said.
People who have one or more copies of the bad gene have at least double the risk of the disease.
Part of their disease is making decisions to do things that are bad for them.
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If the amyloid is cleared in the patients who are getting the drug and the disease is getting worse, it would be a bad sign for future drugs still in testing.
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But they fly in the face of the conventional wisdom about heart disease: Basically, that good cholesterol is always good, and bad cholesterol is always bad.
To be affected by the disease, however, puppies have to inherit two copies of the bad gene, one from their father and one from their mother.
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"Bad" cholesterol - or low density lipoprotein - can block arteries and cause heart disease.
Antibiotics are available to treat gum disease, but they work by wiping out all bacteria, good and bad.
"The passage of the disease through the market was not a reflection on them but was simply bad luck, " he said.
"The good news is that chocolate is not as bad as we used to think, and may even lower the risk of heart disease and stroke, " says Buijsse.
"Instead of being protective, they accelerate the disease, but we didn't understand why they switched to become the bad cells, " he told the BBC.
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The bad news from Indonesia was that seven members of a rural Indonesian family had caught the disease, probably from one another, and six had died.
Bad diets and a lack of exercise are expected to almost double the prevalence of the disease by 2015, and drug companies are pushing potential treatments to market.
Ultimately the drugs may even be able to prevent the disease from striking people at high risk because of a family history of diabetes or bad genes.
Along with helping heavy patients lose weight (it doesn't seem to work as well on thinner patients), Acomplia also raises good cholesterol, cuts bad cholesterol, reduces triglicerides and generally seems as if it should reduce the risk of heart disease and other obesity-related killers.
For example, lung patients with the bad EGFR mutation might be able to use the drug after surgery to prevent a reoccurrence of the disease.
That is the 'bad' cholesterol which forms atherosclerotic lesions, the fatty deposits which narrow the arteries and lead to heart disease.
Cholesterol is clearly not the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease -- half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol -- but the accuracy of CRP as a predictor of cardiac risk has been disputed.
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That's bad enough with regular TB or with strains that are resistant to two or three mainline drugs used to treat the disease.
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