disease
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The study notes that 6.7 million people in the United States currently have Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Most infections are asymptomatic, but about one in 100 involve neuroinvasive disease: meningitis, encephalitis or paralysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hispanic older adults face a disproportionate burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Experts say there is no single reason for this surge in disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“The germs of the disease are numerous in the mucous secretions,” M. M. C. writes.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Also conducted by UT Health San Antonio, it became a major, long-term observational study focused on chronic diseases, healthy aging and the process through which older adults develop disabilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Combining protection against the three diseases has been considered a miracle of modern medicine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Patients with rare diseases often spend five years or more searching for a diagnosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
One possibility would be to engineer immune cells so they could target and break down amyloid and tau aggregates associated with neurodegenerative diseases.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Soon, other scientists connected specific bacteria to diseases such as plague, typhoid fever, and cholera.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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
In a study of mice, they found that a brain protein called Arc, which normally helps neurons communicate, also appears to help toxic Tau spread from diseased brain cells to healthy ones.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
To prepare for transplant, I had two weeks of near-lethal doses of chemo to destroy my diseased bone marrow and suppress my immune system, creating space for donor cells to take hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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
“I’m not pregnant or diseased or anything like that, if that’s what you’re asking.”
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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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