These disease-specific stem cell lines will also be invaluable in testing out new therapies.
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Dr Jacob Puliyel, a paediatrician in Delhi, wrote in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics last year that "the polio eradication programme epitomises nearly everything that is wrong with donor-funded 'disease specific' vertical projects, at the cost of investments in community-oriented primary care".
Previous studies have linked Mediterranean diets to fewer heart attacks and deaths from heart disease, but most of those have correlated people's recall of their diet with heart-disease outcomes rather than randomly assigning participants to eat specific diets and then following them for heart-disease risk, as Estruch and his colleagues did.
Youth -- or a person's specific risk factors for disease -- may also affect their risk for developing heart disease and dementia.
This should help researchers focus on the specific immune-system problems that underlie the disease.
In other large product-liability cases, such as cigarettes or asbestos, there seems to be a well-established link between the products and a specific disease, such as asbestosis or lung cancer.
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Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI is not suffering from any specific disease that forced him to resign, his spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the news that he was stepping down shocked the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
"Thatcher's economic policy cured the specific British disease of vulnerability to bouts of high inflation and a Luddite trade-union movement, " said Howard Davies, formerly a deputy governor of the Bank of England and a head of the London School of Economics.
HSE, however, were resistant to plenty of disease-causing agents other than the H. simplex virus, suggesting that innate immunity could be specific, too.
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In an analysis of cases of all but the sex-specific cancers like prostate and ovarian cancers, for example, men with the disease were more likely than women to die in each of the past 10 years, researchers found.
MSN: Men who have cancer more likely to die from it, study finds
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