Women process alcohol differently than men and tend to be smaller, meaning they are more susceptible to effects of drinking, including heart disease, cancer, stroke and liver disease, to name a few.
Regional newspapers relish tales of posties' life-saving heroics - resuscitating a choking nine-month-old boy, carrying a blind pensioner out of a burning house or spotting the jaundiced face of someone with liver disease, to name a few real-life events.
More than a century after Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease that bears his name, it is still ultimately fatal, and no treatment is available to slow or stop its progression.
The disease, which took on the name of the psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer, still mystifies doctors a century later.
While the consumption of sugary drinks contributes to obesity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not name a single largest cause nationally.
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It was brought to national attention in 1939, when famed Yankee baseball player Lou Gehrig's illness was diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Today, the disease is most commonly known by his name.
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That means that these kids are at greater risk of obesity-related diseases -- you name them, cancer, heart disease, stroke.
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Only one out of five adults is able to name a single vaccine-treatable disease other than the flu, a recent survey found.
As the most powerful people in the world (the leaders of the seven big industrial democracies plus Russia, together with the president of the European Commission), they promise every summer to tackle some of its worst troubles: poverty, disease, warfare, crime and pollution, to name but a few.
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For example, instead of vaccinating everyone in a population against a disease, it may be just as effective to choose people at random and ask them to name their closest friends, then vaccinate those friends.
He participates in nearly every big-name fundraiser that takes place in Montreal, including those for breast cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease and cystic fibrosis.
An outbreak of the disease in Philadelphia in 1976, largely among people attending a convention of the American Legion, led to its name.
A. Scientists hope that stem cell research will lead to cures for such diseases as heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, and perhaps even spinal cord regeneration, to name a few.
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