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disease

[dih-zeez] / dɪˈziz /


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In 2016, the world retired its Millennium Development Goals—a short list of mostly efficient, targeted aims: cut poverty, disease, and maternal and child deaths, and get every child into school.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

More than 40 percent improved enough to move into a less severe OSA category, while 18 percent achieved complete disease control.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

"Our soldiers are also deployed to collect bodies and prevent the spread of disease."

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

From this September, adults will be invited to have the vaccine when they are 65, rather than waiting until 75, if they have certain pre-existing health conditions, such as chronic lung disease.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Throughout the nineteenth century, periodic waves of the disease sent more mortals than usual off to the world of spirits.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Novartis was testing rap-cel in lupus, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Exposure to particulate matter has been connected to respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses as well as neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

I’m also a physician, trained in a profession that asks us to take action by identifying risk factors, diagnosing diseases, and intervening whenever possible.

From Slate Aug. 29, 2026

But when I looked into it more, I discovered it also happens to some woman who have other autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid problems.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

At lunch, I ask Albert and Keisha about some diseases I can use as an excuse not to go.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, graduate student researcher Jessica Maung, Ph.D., and a broader collaborative team to investigate what happens inside diseased fat tissue.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 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

“Perhaps only some forms of madness spring from a diseased mind, while other types of madness may be divine in origin.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

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




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