Cancer is not a single disease of course, but a family of related diseases.
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I'm proud to report, on behalf of our citizens, that it remains the largest commitment by any nation ever to combat a single disease.
But it's difficult to envision deploying tens of millions of health workers for a single disease each time, especially since the Indian health system faces crippling health human resource shortages.
Further complicating the landscape is the realization in the past decade that, rather than being a single disease, breast cancer is at least five distinct diseases, with (to some extent at least) different risk factors, pathology, prognosis, and treatment.
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"Most of us agree this virus is not a single-drug disease, " says Dr. Jeffrey Crippin of Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Some 600, 000 Americans have a less severe version caused by one defective copy. (There would be more of the double-gene victims if they didn't die young.) To get its drug approved Isis will need to study 45 patients with the severe two-gene form and a few hundred with the single-gene disease.
Only one out of five adults is able to name a single vaccine-treatable disease other than the flu, a recent survey found.
Premature deaths from heart disease - the single biggest killer - are down by a quarter since 1997, with a third more heart operations, twice as many patients receiving immediate access to clot-busting drugs and cholesterol lowering drugs now prescribed to 1.8 million people.
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He is relocating work around an individual disease category to a single site and giving each autonomy.
The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.
John Martin, Gilead chief executive, catapulted the company to the top of the biotech industry with his wise acquisitions in HIV, allowing the first single-pill combination treatments for that disease.
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One industry expert said the mass deaths indicated a disease outbreak, possibly on a single farm.
Just a few years ago researchers had naively hoped that they could design a drug to blast a single cancer-causing protein and send the disease into remission for years without forcing the patient to endure the side effects of prolonged toxic chemotherapy.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is still the single biggest killer in the UK, claiming nearly 125, 000 lives a year.
Meanwhile, genetic carrier tests are more accurate because scientists know more about single gene disorders, such as Huntington's disease and sickle cell anemia, Faucett said.
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"Yet despite being the UK's single biggest killer, the first sign someone has heart disease is often severe chest pain or sudden death".
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While the consumption of sugary drinks contributes to obesity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not name a single largest cause nationally.
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Doctors say that quitting smoking is the single most important thing anyone can do to protect themselves against heart disease.
Based on a study of nearly 200 Vietnamese families affected by another infectious illness, the bacterial disease leprosy, he and his colleagues have identified a single gene as a strong risk factor for leprosy in children under 16 years old.
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For some inherited disorders such as Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis, where a change in just a single gene causes a potentially devastating condition, highly predictive genetic tests already available.
Because no single cause has been identified, it's likely that Meniere's disease is caused by a combination of factors.
The disease causes a person's joints to become locked in a single position, in Emma's case, it was her arms.
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And in the last fifteen years, it has not had a single case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), "mad cow disease".
And futuristic genetic tests will single out which men are most likely to get the most virulent forms of the disease, letting preemptive treatment begin years before cancer turns deadly.
The simple way to search for such genes would be to gather thousands of patients with disease and scan through all ten million places where humans differ by a single DNA letter, comparing the results to thousands of healthy control patients.
One disease under study is cystic fibrosis, which is caused by one of around 200 defects on a single gene.
Scripps Health cardiologist Eric Topol says testing for single genetic variants may be misleading, as there are likely to be numerous genes that affect the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses.
And this is a disease, as we know, that affects not just those diagnosed with it, and not just those who've survived it and those who've lost their lives to it, but it is a disease that also affects those who love and know them -- which these days seems like almost every single person in this country.
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