"Chronic kidney disease has a much greater impact on people's lives, and on NHS costs, than is generally recognised, " she said.
Trade groups for meat producers have questioned the link between red meat and cardiovascular disease on the grounds that studies that ask people to recall what they ate over long periods are imprecise.
Starting in 1965 Dr. Lester Breslow, a titan in the field of public health and the Dean of the UCLA School of Public Health, initiated a ground-breaking prospective study of the impact of health behaviors on disability and disease among 7, 000 people in Alameda County, California who were followed for a total of 35 years.
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So the review authors were not convinced that people without previous heart disease should all go on statins, even though their own numbers showed a decreased risk.
Some might wonder why so much effort and money is being devoted to fight a disease that is contracted by fewer people than can fit on a commercial airplane.
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An American man with a highly dangerous form of tuberculosis is under guard in an Atlanta hospital while health officials in many countries try to track down people he may have exposed to the disease on his way to Europe and back.
It's clear that depression has a strong effect on quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease.
Retinitis pigmentosa is a genetic disease that causes people to slowly lose their eyesight as time goes on and eventually become blind.
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Since almost all of our body's organs rely on mitochondria for energy, people suffering from a mitochondrial disease may have a wide variety of symptoms.
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For the new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Carnethon and her team reviewed data on five previous studies that were tracking people for heart disease risk factors.
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But the movie's title is "Greenberg, " not "Marr, " and Mr. Stiller commands a kind of awe in his refusal to clothe the naked hostility of a character who suffers from the autoimmune disease of self-loathing. ("Life is wasted on people, " the hero says at one point.) An ardent arsonist, he has burned most of the bridges that once connected him to friends and a flourishing career.
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About two-thirds of the NHS budget is spent on people with long-term conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes and dementia.
Events marking the first Africa Malaria Day are taking place across the continent focusing attention on efforts to combat the disease, which kills more than a million people every year, many of them children.
"People with lung disease, particularly asthmatics should keep an eye on ozone forecasts on Ceefax and in the papers so they can double their inhalers if the levels are likely to be high, " he said.
The latest statistics show that in 2006 49 people in their twenties died from liver disease, the highest number on record.
So if the NHS spent more resources on illness prevention for diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart disease then less people would end up needing drugs.
People get on planes from Africa, and will bring a disease right here to our doorstep, because we weren't concerned about whether or not they had a public health system that could catch these diseases early.
They are not protected at all at that age by the DTaP, and since a huge percentage of even appropriately vaccinated people can still catch and transmit the disease, parents cannot rely on the theory that their baby is safe from the disease if exposed to them.
Soon, more people will be put on ARVs each year than die of the disease.
But the survival of many more people is dependent on raising the profile of a difficult and deadly disease.
Chuck Gerba, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Arizona who is studying bacteria on touchscreens, says it's possible for people to contract a disease from sharing a device like an iPad.
But it would entirely eliminate funding for the Social Services Block Grant program, which helps fund Meals on Wheels, transportation, and other important assistance for people with chronic disease who live at home.
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But there is a genetic mutation that nearly always predicts early onset Alzheimer's, a rare version of the disease that develops in people ages 30 to 60, according to the National Institute on Aging.
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While drug firms such as Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and Lilly are focusing on drugs for diabetes and heart disease, Wyeth's Poussot touts a new antibiotic and two women's health drugs.
If this disease was carried by rats, people would be breaking the door down demanding we get on and sort it out.
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"We were happy to have a chance to spend some brief moments to talk to one of the leading celebrities in world that has used their celebrity status to help other people, particularly ... the millions of people on the continent of Africa who are suffering with the most devastating disease known to mankind, " Fattah said.
That theory is based on a study of almost 4, 000 people, half of whom had the disease.
Another step is to receive treatment for HIV disease, because people who are taking HIV medications are much less likely to pass the virus on to their partners.
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Several people asked me about gluten sensitivity after I mentioned it in my response on celiac disease several weeks ago, so I thought this would be a good time to expand further on this less well-known and much less well-defined condition.
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