disorder
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News that drug candidate del-desiran missed the target of a late-stage study in rare neuromuscular disorder known as myotonic dystrophy type 1 came shortly after cardiovascular drug pelacarsen failed another trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Linton had struggled with bipolar disorder for years before the crash and was twice hospitalized due to issues related to her mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, about one in 200 people worldwide, or roughly 37 million people, live with bipolar disorder.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
The child was born with Amish lethal microcephaly, a rare genetic disorder associated with a severely shortened life expectancy, and had been receiving palliative care since shortly after birth.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Though seriously ill with an intestinal disorder that would eventually prove fatal, Jefferson summoned up the energy for one final spasm of eloquence.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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That finding is particularly relevant because people with diabetes and other metabolic disorders may deliberately choose products labeled "sugar free" in an effort to avoid the health effects associated with table sugar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Hundreds of women who sympathized with Clancy’s postpartum struggle have gathered outside the Plymouth, Mass., courthouse during the trial to raise awareness of the severe mood and anxiety disorders some new mothers face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Persistent inflammation is also considered an important contributor to several neurodegenerative disorders.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"This creates addictions and dependencies. It also leads to attention disorders," Macron told the pupils.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
There were few engagements with the enemy at that time—the rebels, we suspected, had little powder and less spirit—so the most numerous deaths were from distempers and disorders.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
But training AI to know when and how to offer advice to those struggling with disordered eating has proven difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
No one knew his place in this disordered and kingless country.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019
Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.
From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017
But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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