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disease

[dih-zeez] / dɪˈziz /


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The findings may help explain why age is the strongest risk factor for neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine, are 97% effective at preventing the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Several observational studies have found the shingles vaccines may have a benefit for people with heart disease.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Resilient Shield is one of 13 core facilities that make up the CDC's new Insight Net, a national network devoted to modeling outbreaks and disease threats.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

He figured he must have picked up the liver disease while wading through one of those rice paddies.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

"Bats evolved to live for a long time without getting diseases, which suggests that we don't necessarily need to look at diseases of aging and diseases of infection as completely separate fields," Vazquez said.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

But that wasn’t the case, and those exposed are now at elevated risks of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, not to mention cancer.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

"It had laid dormant for 20 years and we've all developed these fatal diseases."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

They recommend waiting until cats are tested for diseases and confirmed to be healthy before introducing them to other pets.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

He removed the tumour and part of the diseased jawbone, but the electrochemotherapy was administered to target any remaining cancerous cells.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Eventually, they hope to compare circulation patterns between healthy and diseased brains, as well as between younger and older brains.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Different tissues have distinct methylation patterns, and those patterns can shift when cells become diseased or cancerous.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 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

She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

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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