The death rate from heart disease, although falling, remains higher in Wales than in England, although lower than in the north west and north east of England, areas with similar social-economic issues.

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Are the rates of heart disease and type-II diabetes falling in my area of practice?

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She told the BBC he had been in and out of hospital recently after falling ill with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease affecting the nervous system.

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Eradicating the disease could re-energize vaccine campaigns against other diseases that are currently falling short.

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Rates of rabies in the U.S. began falling in the 1950s, when local governments began requiring that dogs be vaccinated against the disease.

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Scientists have estimated that the worst of the infections could be over after the disease appeared to hit a high point in 2000 with 28 deaths, before falling.

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Cancer rates have been falling since the early 1970s when more than 150 men per 100, 000 were diagnosed with the disease, reflecting the peak in smoking rates in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Discredited claims by Andrew Wakefield of a link between MMR and autism led to vaccination rates falling to 80% by 2005, far below the level needed to prevent the spread of the disease.

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Although hospital admissions for under 18-year-olds were falling, patients as young as their early 20s were being admitted to hospital with alcohol-related liver disease.

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