Contrary to what many think, this is not a disease caused by starvation.
An important distinction is that alpha-gal is not a disease like Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever -- it is an allergy.
Opponents say also that obesity may cause health problems the way high cholesterol does, but it is not a disease in and of itself.
They discovered that in North Carolina, where the Baptist church is powerful, many people believed that alcoholism was not a disease but a sign of personal weakness.
Cancer is not a single disease of course, but a family of related diseases.
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This is not a medical disease but rather it is a normal reaction to abnormal personal or social circumstances.
But dead bodies should not be a disease concern to the public, he said.
Forty-one per cent of those who said they did have enough information about drug treatments still did not take a disease-modifying treatment.
However, Simon Cousens, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, points out that such a pattern does not necessarily mean a disease outbreak is levelling off.
Or a person may receive false reassurance that he or she is not at risk for a certain disease and not be vigilant about his or her health, he said.
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Breast-feeding can certainly help provide immune protection against multiple illnesses, but not if a mother does not have immunity to a certain disease such as pertussis.
Whether it can be right to cure someone of what is not yet considered a disease remains unaddressed.
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All this suggests to Dr Abbott that Parkinson's may not be simply a disease of the brain, as is now believed.
Science has shown that drug addiction is not a moral failing but rather a disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated.
She told him (and the rabbits that sometimes surreptitiously accompanied the riders) that people were becoming more and more unbalanced: studies had proved it, which led the psychiatrist to conjecture that perhaps mental instability was not so much a disease as a stratum of normality, just below the surface of normality as it was commonly conceived.
However, it is not like a test for the disease itself - not all women who are positive for BRCA 1 or 2 will go on to develop the disease.
He had found with a collaborator at Johns Hopkins that stem cells in mice genetically altered to have a similar disease did not respond normally to a signaling pathway called hedgehog that had an important role in brain development.
"Most of us agree this virus is not a single-drug disease, " says Dr. Jeffrey Crippin of Washington University School of Medicine in St.
If new symptoms turn up after taking a new medicine, they could be a side effect of the drug, not a symptom of the disease.
Some tools are not specific to a particular disease or condition.
Whether or not you consider obesity a disease or a disorder, rising rates of Type II diabetes and other obesity-linked complications threaten the long-term economic health of our country.
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The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.
Prevailing opinion is that they need not be treated because their disease has not progressed to a point where it threatens their health.
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Attorneys for the school argued that tick-borne encephalitis is such a rare disease that it could not have foreseen a risk and could not be expected to warn Munn or require her to use protection against it.
Unfortunately, one drug that has been widely tipped as a treatment for the disease does not kill the SARS virus in a petri dish, seriously denting any hope that the drug will be effective at treating SARS in people.
"All these studies tell us is it is much more complicated than just trying to fix that number because that is a surrogate marker, or a predictor for the disease, not the disease itself, " says Robert Centor, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
It is a particular gamble if the child is conceived partly to provide a bone marrow graft for a brother or sister with a nasty genetic disease: not only might the new baby turn out be a poor match for transplantation, but might also have inherited the same disorder as his or her sibling.
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