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disease
disease A condition in which the normal function of some part of the body (cells, tissues, or organs) is disturbed. A variety of microorganisms and environmental agents are capable of causing disease. The functional disturbances are often accompanied by structural changes in tissue.
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DISEASES DO NOT PRECLUDE FREE WILL
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 2/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...therefore must not be diseases. All diseases have degrees of severity...with diabetes or heart disease do everything they can...say it can't be a disease if we're not helpless...outdated notion that diseases respond only to external...
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Disease still threatens
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 3/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...humans never have been known to contract the disease. It's a member of the group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies...bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) in cattle and Cruetzfeldt-Jacob disease...
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Health: Diseases of poverty on rise in Pakistan.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 12/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...diseases. These six diseases - tuberculosis, malaria...pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease - combined with complications...risk factor for such diseases, and in some cases disease can (or allegedly) cause poverty. These diseases are in contrast to...
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'Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic', by Peter H.R. Green, M.D. and Rory Jones is First and Only Authoritative Guide on the Disorder
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 2/6/2006; 700+ words
; ...barley. When people with celiac disease eat foods containing gluten...food they may eat. Celiac disease is hereditary, and can develop...challenge in diagnosing celiac disease is that it affects each person...be similar to those of other diseases. Symptoms and conditions may...
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:STEPHEN BLOUNT
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 3/3/1998; 700+ words
; ...from infectious diseases. This effort was...Emerging Infectious Disease Threats: A Prevention...problem of emerging diseases: surveillance...global capacity, disease eradication, and...especially important that disease surveillance be...where emerging diseases may go undetected...
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HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE SHOWING UP IN SOUTHEASTERN DEER THIS YEAR
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...South Carolina. Hemorrhagic disease is the most significant disease of deer in the Southeast...Although there are a number of diseases that can cause sickness and...summer and fall is hemorrhagic disease. The disease is caused by...
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Emerging diseases; Ticks carry multitude of threats A study has found that Lyme disease is not the only illness carried by the deer tick, and that the transmission of two or more diseases at the same time can increase the suffering.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/5/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...international conference on Lyme disease next week in San Francisco, he said. "These are diseases that tend to be found wherever Lyme disease is found," Persing...types and symptoms of diseases. 1. Lyme disease - Bull's-eye-like...
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Disease Management Status: A Typology of Latino and Euro-American Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.
Magazine article from: Behavioral Medicine; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...with other chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, asthma, and chronic...patterns of patient disease management behavior...with other chronic diseases that require major...Typological Approach to Disease Management Status...
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DISEASE IS WASTING THE WEST'S WILD HERDS GAME FARMS MAY BE
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle; 10/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...COLLINS, Colo. -- Nobody knows where the disease came from, or if it has existed forever...Researchers call it chronic wasting disease. Since it first appeared in captive mule...Only about 100 cases of chronic wasting disease have been documented in wild mule deer...
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Disease management requires different skills.
Newspaper article from: Case Management Advisor; 5/1/2004; 700+ words
; Disease management requires different skills Know...are a case manager who also is performing disease management activities, keep in mind that...sets, suggests Rufus Howe, RN-C, MN. Disease management is not your mothers case management...
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Noninfectious Diseases
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...syndrome. Varieties of Disease The essay Disease classifies noninfectious diseases as follows: hereditary or genetic...discussed here); stress-related diseases (see Disease); autoimmune diseases (see Immunity and Immunology); and...
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disease
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...modern disease. Disease categories One broad...classification divides diseases into two principle...broad classes of disease. Genetics and diseases Hereditary diseases...that many common diseases, including heart disease, insulin dependent...
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Disease, Genetics of
Book article from: Genetics
Disease, Genetics of Genetics is believed to play a role in almost every human disease. Even for diseases traditionally described as environmental...infection or in the severity of the disease. In some disorders a variation within...
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Multifactorial Diseases
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...enormously increases the risk of many diseases, including coronary heart disease. But is smoking the cause of these...referred to as "risk factors" for the disease; and diseases such as coronary heart disease are referred to as "multifactorial...
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Disease
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...animals also contract diseases, by far the most significant disease-related areas of interest...deviation can bring about disease. Diseases can be classified into...the overlap between disease types. Dietary diseases: These are all illnesses...
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