One reason: Brits have less incidence of common diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke and cancer.
And as Genzyme's Mr Tambuyzer notes, rare diseases become less rare once a drug is on the market.
It is simply to point out that animals given more space and air may be at less risk of catching diseases from their neighbours.
And if you have insurance, then you are less likely to develop preventable diseases.
Eating less may prevent the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, according to research.
In fact, he emphasizes that the only way to bring medical costs in line is to make people fitter, healthier and less likely to come down with deadly diseases.
In fact, it was clear that the U.S. environment played some role in the trend, since foreign-born children who had lived in America for more than 10 years were three times as likely to develop allergic diseases as those who spent less than two years Stateside.
Dr Baigent said surveys in the UK have shown that aspirin is prescribed to less than a quarter of people with diseases such as peripheral arterial disease - a condition which causes fatty deposits to build up in the arteries of the leg, and which commonly leads to heart attacks or strokes.
Researchers are also working on needle-less vaccines and jabs against non-infectious diseases such as certain cancers.
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Specifically, he called for shifting federal funding away from "less immediate" needs and toward finding cures for diseases.
People are suffering less from diarrhoea, cholera, pneumonia and other common diseases.
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Not only are they more prone to deadly infectious diseases than the rich, but they have far less access to the means of improvement.
The result may be teens and young adults who are less likely than their peers to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies.
The NHS now sees many more patients with diseases that come in older age, and with less money available, so Jeremy Hunt, his ministers and the professions now have to find a way of fixing the "overworked machine" in order to provide good, high-quality care.
Even if the idea of a little diarrhea or a urinary tract infection does not faze you (both of which can be caused by E. coli), the problem is that as strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more commonplace in our lives, the less we are able to use the drugs to treat common human diseases.
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To tackle these diseases, we need holistic solutions, especially in countries with less-developed health-care systems.
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In truth, the burden left on future generations will be a much less evolved economy in terms of technology, the ability to cure fatal diseases, and the ability to employ them in as specialized a manner as possible.
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The results are nothing less than what patients have come to expect when they seek treatment for incurable diseases.
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Smokeless nicotine, ingested via a skin patch, is less than ideal because its effects on the body are too broad to treat diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's.
"If you look at how challenged the U.S. has been in dealing with this one imported case, I think it's really important for WHO and other countries to up the preparedness in areas where they might have less resources, " said Dr. Jesse Goodman, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University, who was not involved with the study.
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While Paranjape's study found that women with the highest levels of abuse reported having poor health, the same number of diseases were reported among those women as the women in the sample who had less or no abuse.
Less common causes of enlarged lymph nodes include infections such as cat scratch disease, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases.
But due to manufacturing delays, "we think at most it will be 10 to 12 million doses less, " said Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC's director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
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