Having a disease is a very humbling thing".
But when a person is told about having a disease with a poor prognosis, hope should not be abandoned.
They then scanned the genomes of patients with common diseases to look for statistical links between having a disease and having a particular variation.
If you take away the disease label, then basically I won't be able to get better, if you don't let me understand myself as having a disease.' It's a very strange argument, to have to think of yourself as having a disease because that's the only way you can live with yourself and deal with the addiction.
Some people might be overtreated because their B.M.I. was above a line designating them as having a disease, even though they were healthy.
I feel I am being blamed for having a disease that I can't help and that I am fighting as much as possible.
As a result, those who are actually sick tend to be more tolerant of their diseases — and less willing to gamble their lives on a cure — than healthy people who are asked to imagine having a disease.
The report, produced by a 12-member panel that convened a year ago, says that people addicted to heroin or similar opiates should be recognized as having a disease and that methadone is the preferred treatment.
Think of the horror of having a disease that prevents you from going out in public -- and in the absence of any diagnosis of what is actually wrong with you.
Therefore, it follows that no form of neurophysiologic testing currently available has 100% 'positive predictive value' (the chance of having a disease given a positive test result) in the diagnosis of 'brain death', which is necessary for the pronouncement of human death.
A case record of the information pertaining to an animal (or to a herd of animals) that is suspected of having a disease is begun at the time the animal is taken to a veterinarian (or the veterinarian visits the animal) and is continued through treatment.
