Huntington's chorea was listed as one of five diseases whose sufferers might be considered candidates for voluntary sterilization.
Re "Some Gene Research Isn't Worth the Money" (Jan . 18: The authors suggest that the best candidates for genetic research are the diseases whose causes are solely genetic.
As these children grow up, New York State will spend an estimated $136.3 billion from 2011 to 2020 to treat diseases whose underlying cause is obesity.
This way of thinking, which has usually produced excellent results, has had the unintended effect of making us skeptical of diseases whose etiologies are poorly understood — those, like ME/CFS, for which there isn't a clear single cause.
But although this patient was clearly sick, she didn't appear quite as ill as she'd be if she were suffering from one of those diseases, whose rapidly progressive courses are among their most deadly characteristics.
Gearing them up to cope with a malevolent biological attack would have the added advantage of enhancing our ability to deal with infectious diseases whose causes are wholly natural.
A better idea, Fishman says, is to test first in narrow diseases whose precise genetic mechanisms are well known.
Evrony was intrigued by this possibility and whether somatic mutations might drive neuropsychiatric diseases whose causes remain unknown.
"As a physician-scientist, I wanted to pursue research that could help patients with diseases whose causes are not known.
There are no diseases whose possession would immediately halt an application to immigrate - all cases are assessed individually.
The topics discussed are the effects of smoking and pathologies such diabetes, chronic-fatigue syndrome and a few other diseases whose origin is still unknown.
