Also, the expanding definition of disease is driving up costs.
Patients and doctors alike, we can get along quite nicely without a better definition of disease.
Much as a good definition of disease might have aided his cause, Jellinek did not mean to reproach medicine for operating without one.
The purpose of the present investigation was to assess the feasibility of such a procedure and its impact on the final definition of disease extension and patient treatment.
"One might say that all that is required is to state the criteria of alcoholism and to see whether or not they are in conformity with the definition of disease".
There is, of course, a working definition of disease, one that most of us share: a disease is a kind of suffering caused by something gone wrong in the body.
The change in FVC was an exploratory endpoint, and was included in the definition of disease progression used herein.
Consequently, in some cases, the clinical definition of disease symptoms are based exclusively on characteristics of those reported in men.
Today, advances in neuroscience, medicine and the definition of disease put a different spin on the question.
In recent years, the definition of disease and 'non-disease' has led to a heated debate in the literature [1] [10], with much of the rhetoric focused around the 'medicalization' of syndromes and disorders on the fringes of the classic definition of disease [2] [8], [11] [13].
Discovery of transcriptional biomarkers represents a promising strategy in the field of translational medicine for early disease detection, the development of personalized therapy for complex diseases, and for the definition of disease specific signaling pathways [1], [2].
