The only good news is that the prognosis for these patients is better than for the old disease.
Historically, prostate cancer was considered a disease of old age but a recent study spanning two decades shows that it is becoming increasingly prevalent in younger men.
Although there is no way, yet, to revive dead brain cells, attempts are under way to use old Parkinson's disease drugs that boost levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine or mimic its effects.
The Bristol-based charity Meningitis UK was set up by Steve Dayman, who lost his 14-month-old son Spencer to the disease in 1982.
And in San Diego, a measles outbreak in 2008 was traced to an unvaccinated 7-year-old boy who contracted the disease in Switzerland and passed it on to 11 other unvaccinated children, including in his family, his school and his pediatrician's office.
He is 74 years old, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is attached permanently to an oxygen supply.
The 74-year-old had suffered from motor neurone disease for more than four years.
But, in the Cell study, Mitalipov and colleagues began with skin cells from an 8-month-old baby that had a genetic disease.
"It is miraculous that there is something out there, " says San Francisco resident Karen Durrant, whose 7-year-old son has the neonatal-onset disease.
He was only 55 years old and suffered from Huntington's Disease.
In the book Rebecca tells him very gently that he too was tested for HIV when he was just four-years-old, and he also has the disease.
Twenty-one-year-old John Sharp from Jersey died from Lafora disease earlier this year.
And as individuals live longer, they are increasingly prone to such "old age" problems as diabetes and heart disease - chronic ailments that are usually more expensive to treat.
On the Republican side, where ten rivals are squeaking round him, George W. may yet be tripped up by his rakish past or by his father's old ailment, foot-in-mouth disease.
One large study of statins in people aged 70-82 years old found that illness and deaths from heart disease fell in those treated with pravastatin but overall there was no difference in mortality as rates of cancer illness and death increased.
Even if they are effective, vaccines may face stiff resistance from parents who are urged to let their 11-year-old daughter get a shot against a sexually transmitted disease or told that their son needs one for a disease that is likely never to harm him.
But Gillison, 44, a professor at Ohio State University, was among the first researchers to make a startling realization: The old cigarettes-and-alcohol form of the disease was being eclipsed by a new form, caused by the same human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.
Six month old Seth Petreikis was born with an extremely rare genetic disease called DiGeorge Syndrome.
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He entered the field to search for treatments for diabetes, a disease that afflicts his 10-year-old son.
He beat the disease and planned to come back to his old job, but his children had different ideas about that.
Because the disease kills the young as well as the old, parents have good reason to get both themselves and their children vaccinated.
The vaccination is intended to offer protection against pertussis, the bacteria that causes whooping cough, until babies are old enough to begin receiving their own vaccinations against the disease starting at 2 months of age.
Their 8-year-old daughter, Adalyne, has type 1 diabetes and celiac disease.
Even if they are effective, vaccines may face stiff resistance from parents who are urged to let their 11-year-old daughter or son get a shot against a sexually transmitted disease.
It has never been clear, for instance, exactly which cases of heart disease result from greater susceptibility as the body gets old and which are largely due to environmental factors.
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Christian Billingsley, now 17, was 3 months old when he started projectile vomiting, the first evidence the disease was attacking every part of his body, especially his kidneys, which failed when he was 18 months old.
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Richard Griffin, 64, and 79-year old William Hammersley, both died and 19 other people caught the disease.
Shooters actively try to target the old birds which are more likely to be carrying some form of disease or worms.
When the FDA convened an advisory committee in October 2012 to help it decide whether to approve the drug, one patient, a 20-year-old man named Christian Jacobs, described being so terrified by his disease that he often had written goodbye notes to his family before going to bed.
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Symptoms of the disease are rarely seen until cattle are at least two years old.
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