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disease

[dih-zeez] / dɪˈziz /


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Patients who received paricalcitol with chemotherapy had more responses to treatment and were more likely to remain free of disease progression after one year.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the western blacklegged tick, known as the deer tick in most of the country, is common in the state’s chaparral, grasslands and woods, and can transmit Lyme disease, babesiosis and other pathogens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Plus, an infected deer tick must keep its harpoon-like feeding tube in the bloodstream for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Five patients in the paricalcitol groups also remained free of disease progression at the one year mark.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

I was, of course, sorry there was so much poverty and disease in Haiti, and I admired Farmer for his work, but I also felt that I couldn’t be sorry enough to satisfy him.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

He was interested, Berry says, in "developing skills that would maybe at a later point allow him to cure various diseases."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Our goal is to identify approaches that make these complex diseases more treatable by finding the differences between cancer cells and normal cells," Pietras said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Novartis will acquire worldwide rights over Abogen’s lead drug candidate, ABO2203, which is designed to treat autoimmune diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Prop 38 aims to fund immunotherapy research to prevent and cure diseases through bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But another was an invisible killer: the Spanish and other European explorers brought deadly contagious diseases, like smallpox, to the Americas.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

He is also concerned about unregulated nurseries selling unidentified, or diseased plants.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The diseased samples were obtained from Johns Hopkins University Hospital through an initiative supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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

She was standing next to a life-sized statue of San Lazaro with all his boils and diseased skin.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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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