disease

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own tissues, particularly the joints.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The company’s third-quarter update offered a peek at clinical-trial results due next year, which include late-stage studies for inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis, hemophilia A and lymphoma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Startups are designing plants that glow or turn purple when disease or pests strike, empowering farmers to act quickly without widespread chemical use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Uganda declared itself free of the disease in August after its last patient was discharged.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Her mom from a disease called ovarian cancer, when Mom was sixteen, and her dad in a car accident two years later.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The couple created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization whose efforts include curing, managing and preventing all diseases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

In this one problem, Hassabis saw an opportunity to find solutions to a whole lot more, since predicting the shapes of proteins—“unbelievably exquisite things,” he calls them—held the promise of understanding diseases and curing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

For example, skin cells can be converted into cells capable of producing nerve tissue, an approach that could eventually contribute to treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Among these are tiny microparticles which can penetrate deep into the lungs and, in some cases, enter the bloodstream, causing inflammation, chronic lung diseases and increased risk of premature death.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Yellow fever was one of the most vicious diseases in the world and could create panic anywhere.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Plants are ruthless in shedding those that are damaged or diseased or that they can no longer maintain, for instance during dry weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Humans usually contract it from fleas that have fed on infected wild rodents, or sometimes by handling the tissue or body fluids of a diseased animal, according to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Researchers collected tissue from both diseased and non-diseased areas of the heart.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

"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

Sometime in the late nineteenth century clumsy repairs were made with unpainted cement which had turned brown and gave the building a mottled, diseased appearance.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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