He understood his subjects and he never suffered from the all-too-common disease in this arena--"gotcha" journalism.
The genetics of common disease has just turned out to be much more complicated than we hoped.
You ask a fascinating question about a very common disease, much of which was first described only in the past 60 years.
Laboratory tests have identified that some of the pigs had porcine circovirus, a common disease that affects pigs but does not affect humans.
It is so contagious, that very few unimmunized individuals escape this common disease when they are exposed to someone with active chicken pox.
Prostate cancer is a common disease but treatment isn't straightforward.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Leslie Michelson: Doctor to the 1% (and Maybe Someday to You)
The University of Colorado researchers are studying molecular mechanisms of normal acclimatization in healthy people to gain new treatment ideas for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a common lung disease.
WSJ: Mayo Clinic Researchers on Everest Study High Altitude's Effects on the Body
Schistosomiasis is the second most common parasitic disease in the world after malaria - with 90% of cases in Africa.
After three weeks the patients were asked if they had seen an improvement in their IBS, a common gastrointestinal disease that can cause abdominal pain and discomfort.
Leung hopes that Celebrex may also combat with Sporadic Adenomatous Polyptosis (SAP), a much more common version of disease.
He does have some bowel and bladder issues, which are also common for this disease, but they are manageable, she said.
CNN: Study: Major benefits for spina bifida surgery in the womb
Moraxella catarrhalis is a common bacterium causing disease in humans.
One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
That's distinct from another common form of the disease, hepatitis A, which takes a fecal-oral route via food or household objects.
They observed it was present at higher levels in cancer cells that were resistant to a common treatment for the disease.
Prostate cancer is now the most common form of the disease in men in the UK, with 22, 000 cases diagnosed each year.
The form of glaucoma, known as open-angle, is the most common form of the disease, and involves mounting pressure on the optic nerve.
"The disease is common, but the fatalities are the puzzle we're trying to figure out, " says Dr. Jim Alexander, a molecular virologist with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In a subset of patients with relapsing remitting MS, the most common form of the disease, the correlation coefficient jumped to 0.69, suggesting an even stronger association between the retinal measurement and brain atrophy.
For the period after the war, and much of her subsequent life, she suffered terribly from what is thought to be chronic brucellosis - a disease more common in livestock, which causes weakness and intermittent fever in humans.
Ms Evans listed the common problems that rare disease suffers face: "Access to timely diagnosis, misdiagnosis, lack of access to information, poor coordination of care, problematic transition from children's to adult services, poor access to treatment, lack of research and inequality of provisions".
Tooth decay is a leading chronic childhood disease -- more common than asthma -- and it's almost entirely preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rickets was a common, even endemic, disease, and therefore not terribly difficult to study.
The virus itself is very common but only causes the disease when the immune system is damaged.
For instance, the disease is more common in northern European countries, where consumption of animals fats is relatively high.
Chlamydia is the most common reportable STD and infectious disease, he said.
New antibiotics are needed to fight the rise of superbugs - bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics used to fight disease.
In the other couples, the infected partner waited to start treatment until later in the course of the disease, a common practice in many countries.
WSJ: AIDS Study Marks Prevention Breakthrough With Antiretroviral Drugs
An even bigger long-term need is to find a treatment that could help millions of patients with the far more common dry form of the disease.
They found that 47, or 34%, of the mummies had such deposits, suggesting, they said, that cardiovascular disease was more common in historic times than many experts think.
应用推荐