disease
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Most infections are asymptomatic, but about one in 100 involve neuroinvasive disease: meningitis, encephalitis or paralysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Indole metabolites have been connected to a wide range of diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
He might have been treated for something else, said Ames, were it not for an AI interpretation of Busch’s electrocardiogram that suggested a 98% probability of cardiac amyloidosis, a rare, serious heart disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
By contrast, p-cresol sulfate and phenol sulfate come from tyrosine and have been linked to worse outcomes in cancer patients as well as systemic toxicity in people with kidney disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Lice carried an infectious disease called trench fever, characterized by chills and high fever, which put thousands of men out of action.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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The same mosquito carries the diseases Zika and Chikungunya.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
AI can be especially adept at flagging potential rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases, which may otherwise go undetected for years because doctors don’t often see them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
More than a billion people around the world are living with obesity, a condition that raises the risk of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
During deep sleep, a water-like fluid moves around the brain and helps remove metabolic waste associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Different tissues have distinct methylation patterns, and those patterns can shift when cells become diseased or cancerous.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In particular, they’re examining how bacteria from diseased gums, and the immune response they trigger, may contribute to conditions including heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, arthritis, respiratory disease and chronic liver disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Wacky animal sidekicks once felt vibrant in a holistic world of artifice; here, a goggle-eyed rooster just looks diseased.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Research focused on using chemotherapy and radiation to wipe out diseased bone marrow, then infusing healthy donor cells to create a new immune system capable of attacking cancer and rebuilding the body’s defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
It was a skinny, bony old horse, probably diseased, but to everyone in the camp, it represented food.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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In either case we have diabetes, the sugar irritating and diseasing the kidneys as it passes.”
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
They provide for your wants, hearken to your complaints, nurture you in sickness, with a diseasing fondness, and so render you incapable.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms
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