disease
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Some longtime citrus growers and nurseries have set up plots of land where researchers can experiment on real trees, and gather data to help fight the disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The state public health department urged Californians to make sure they are vaccinated against measles — noting the disease is spreading in other parts of the country and the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Graham, 71, died on 11 July of an "aortic dissection" caused by cardiovascular disease shortly after returning from a trip to Kyiv.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Atrial fibrillation is a common heart rhythm condition in older adults and also affects many people living with Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Has Ridge Sabio been inoculated against disease and infection common in this time period?
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Both of the new solutions can be adapted to provide a defense against a variety of diseases that plants can’t fight on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Insurance companies will ask about family history, including whether relatives have suffered from dementia, and at what age; ditto for heart disease, among other age-related diseases.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
For many diseases, it is impossible or impracticable to collect detailed, local-level prevalence data.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Uncovering this localized immune niche changes how we view neuroimmune interactions and opens exciting new avenues for treating brain tumors and other neurological diseases."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Throughout history, leprosy has been one of the most misunderstood, feared, and reviled diseases in the world.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"Farmers may unknowingly buy diseased plants. The trees may look healthy initially, but after five or seven years they can suddenly die, causing huge financial losses," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Cells in the diseased livers had started moving away from their mature state and toward the regenerative state, but they were unable to finish the transition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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
These findings suggest that the most effective treatment may not be preventing diseased cells from releasing Tau.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Ultrasonics had promising potential for physics, chemistry, and biology, ranging from the detection of underwater objects to the removal of diseased tissue, but the research required hugely expensive equipment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
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
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